Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 81
Then he raised the triumphant Fenian shout and went into the combat.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: raise, go · To what, where: triumphant Fenian shout, combat
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 (Fionn), 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 | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shout | det |
| 5 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shout | amod |
| 6 | Fenian | Fenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shout | compound |
| 7 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 combat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 combat | det |
| 12 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Fionn | the triumphant Fenian shout | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Fionn not said here | the combat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into combat=Initial_Location |
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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