Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 28

“I give damages to clann-Morna.”

Who acts: Cormac · What happens: give · To what, where: damages, clann

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 (Cormac), 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	_	3 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	damages	damage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 clann	case
6	clann	clann	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Morna	punct
8	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 clann	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present	Cormac	damages	clann and Morna				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent damage=Theme to clann=Recipient

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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