Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 54
That side of the affair was not brought before the Court.
What happens: not bring · To what, where: side, Court
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: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 side | det |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 affair | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 affair | det |
| 5 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 side | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 brought | advmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Court | det |
| 11 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | past · passive | that side of the affair | the Court | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before court=Destination |
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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