Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 59
Then Rough Hair mac Morna wounded Oisin and was himself tumbled by mac Lugac, who was again wounded by Gara mac Morna.
Who acts: Hair mac, Gara mac · What happens: wound, be, tumble · To what, where: Oisin, mac
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hair mac, Gara mac), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wounded | advmod |
| 2 | Rough | Rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hair | amod |
| 3 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mac | compound |
| 4 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wounded | nsubj |
| 5 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mac | flat |
| 6 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Oisin | Oisin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wounded | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 himself | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 himself | cop |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 wounded | obl |
| 11 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wounded | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 mac | case |
| 13 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tumbled | obl |
| 14 | Lugac | Lugac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mac | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wounded | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 wounded | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wounded | aux:pass |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 wounded | advmod |
| 19 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mac | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 mac | case |
| 21 | Gara | Gara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mac | compound |
| 22 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wounded | obl:agent |
| 23 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mac | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wound | past | Hair mac | Oisin | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus oisin=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | past | mac | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tumble | participle | Hair mac not said here | by mac | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | wound | past · passive | Gara mac | mac | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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