Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2
The king, his son and daughter, with Flahri, Feehal, and Fintan mac Bocna sat in the place of judgement, and Cormac called on the witnesses for evidence.
Who acts: Fintan mac · What happens: sit, call · To what, where: son, place, Cormac, witnesses · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fintan 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daughter | cc |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flahri | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Flahri | case |
| 10 | Flahri | Flahri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Feehal | punct |
| 12 | Feehal | Feehal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Flahri | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 15 | Fintan | Fintan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mac | compound |
| 16 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | Bocna | Bocna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mac | flat |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 judgement | case |
| 23 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 called | cc |
| 26 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sat | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 witnesses | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 witnesses | det |
| 30 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 evidence | case |
| 32 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Fintan mac | king's son and daughter not said here | the place of judgement | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent son=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle · passive | Cormac | the witnesses | for evidence | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for evidence=Beneficiary |
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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