Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 87
But Fionn affirmed that he would make no peace with clann-Morna until the matter had been judged by the king, Cormac mac Art, and by his daughter Ailve, and by his son Cairbre of Ana Life’ and by Fintan the chief poet.
Who acts: Fionn, king · What happens: affirm, make, judge · To what, where: Ailve, peace, matter
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, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 affirmed | cc |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 affirmed | nsubj |
| 3 | affirmed | affirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 affirmed | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 peace | det |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Morna | case |
| 11 | clann | clann | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Morna | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 clann | punct |
| 13 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 judged | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 matter | det |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 judged | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 judged | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 judged | aux:pass |
| 19 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 make | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 judged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mac | punct |
| 24 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mac | compound |
| 25 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 king | appos |
| 26 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mac | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ailve | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Ailve | cc |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Ailve | nmod:desc |
| 32 | Ailve | Ailve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 affirmed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 son | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 son | cc |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 son | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 son | nmod:poss |
| 37 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 affirmed | parataxis |
| 38 | Cairbre | Cairbre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 son | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Life | case |
| 40 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Life | compound |
| 41 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Cairbre | nmod |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 Cairbre | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Fintan | cc |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 Fintan | case |
| 45 | Fintan | Fintan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 son | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 poet | det |
| 47 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 poet | amod |
| 48 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Fintan | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 affirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affirm | past | Fionn | Ailve by Fionn's daughter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | would | Fionn | no peace | with clann Morna | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | |||
| 3 | judge | past · perfect · passive | the king | the matter | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent subject=Value |
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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