Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14
Fergus was accordingly sworn, and gave his evidence.
Who acts: Goll · What happens: swear, give, evidence · To what, where: Fergus, evidence
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sworn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sworn | aux:pass |
| 3 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 sworn | advmod |
| 4 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sworn | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 evidence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sworn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past · passive | Fergus | accordingly property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Goll's evidence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | |||||
| 3 | evidence | Goll | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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