Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 19
“Goll mac Morna covered his people with his shield.
Who acts: Goll mac · What happens: cover · To what, where: people
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 mac), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
| 2 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mac | compound |
| 3 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mac | flat |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shield | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shield | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover in a quote | past | Goll mac | mac's people | with mac's shield | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Destination with shield=Theme |
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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