Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 84
Then Fergus True-Lips gathered about him all the poets of the Fianna, and they surrounded the combatants.
Who acts: Fergus True Lips · What happens: gather, surround · To what, where: poets, Lips
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 (Fergus True Lips), 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 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lips | compound |
| 3 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lips | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 True | punct |
| 5 | Lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gathered | nsubj |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gathered | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 poets | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 poets | det |
| 11 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gathered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fianna | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fianna | det |
| 14 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 poets | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surrounded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 surrounded | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gathered | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 combatants | det |
| 20 | combatants | combatant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 surrounded | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Fergus True Lips | all poets of the Fianna | then | about Fionn | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme | ||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | Lips = lip | tree rules |
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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