Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 44
The king and his son also agreed, and the decision was imparted to the Fianna.
Who acts: king · What happens: agree, impart · To what, where: decision
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 (king), 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 | 7 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 son | cc |
| 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 | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 agreed | advmod |
| 7 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imparted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 imparted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 decision | det |
| 11 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 imparted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 imparted | aux:pass |
| 13 | imparted | impart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 agreed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Fianna | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fianna | det |
| 16 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 imparted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the king and king's son | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | impart | past · passive | the decision | to the Fianna | tree rules |
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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