Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 88
Goll agreed that the affair should be submitted to that court, and a day was appointed, a fortnight from that date, to meet at Tara of the Kings for judgement.
Who acts: Goll · What happens: agree, submit, appoint, meet · To what, where: affair, court, Tara · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Goll), 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 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 submitted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 affair | det |
| 5 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 submitted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 submitted | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 submitted | aux:pass |
| 8 | submitted | submit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 submitted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appointed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appointed | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appointed | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appointed | aux:pass |
| 17 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 agreed | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fortnight | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fortnight | det |
| 20 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appointed | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 date | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 date | det |
| 23 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fortnight | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 meet | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 appointed | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Tara | case |
| 28 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 meet | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Kings | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Kings | det |
| 31 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Tara | nmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 judgement | case |
| 33 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meet | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Goll | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | submit | should · passive | the affair | that court | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to court=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | appoint | past · passive | day; fortnight | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Tara of the Kings | for judgement | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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