Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 53
And it was not right of Goll to take by force the position of greatest gift-giver of the Fianna, for there was never in the world one greater at giving gifts, or giving battle, or making poems than Fionn was.
Who acts: one · What happens: not be, take, give, make · To what, where: position, world, gifts, battle, poems
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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1502): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 right | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Goll | case |
| 7 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 right | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | csubj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 force | case |
| 11 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 position | det |
| 13 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 giver | case |
| 15 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 giver | amod |
| 16 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 giver | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 gift | punct |
| 18 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 position | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Fianna | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fianna | det |
| 21 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 giver | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 was | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | advcl |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 was | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | obl |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 was | nsubj |
| 31 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 one | amod |
| 32 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 33 giving | mark |
| 33 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 greater | advcl |
| 34 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 giving | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 giving | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 giving | cc |
| 37 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 giving | conj |
| 38 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 giving | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 making | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 making | cc |
| 41 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 giving | conj |
| 42 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 making | obj |
| 43 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 45 was | mark |
| 44 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 was | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 greater | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | of Goll; right property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the position of greatest gift giver of the Fianna | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not be | past | one | the world; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | one not said here | gifts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | gerund | one not said here | battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | gerund | one not said here | poems | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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