Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 86
These were picked up by the poets and a reconciliation was effected between the two parties.
Who acts: poets, two parties · What happens: pick up, affect · To what, where: These, reconciliation
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 (poets, two parties), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | aux:pass |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 poets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poets | det |
| 7 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 effected | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reconciliation | det |
| 10 | reconciliation | reconciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 effected | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 effected | aux:pass |
| 12 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 picked | conj |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 parties | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parties | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 parties | nummod |
| 16 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 effected | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · passive | the poets | These | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | affect | past · passive | the two parties | a reconciliation | 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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