Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11
A roomy ship under great press of sall was bearing on Ben Edair from the east.
Who acts: roomy ship, sall · What happens: bear, press · To what, where: Ben
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roomy ship, sall), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | nsubj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 press | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 press | amod |
| 6 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sall | case |
| 8 | sall | sall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 press | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bearing | aux |
| 10 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Ben | case |
| 12 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | obl |
| 13 | Edair | Edair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ben | flat |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 east | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 east | det |
| 16 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · progressive | a roomy ship under great press of sall | Ben | from the east | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | press | sall | nom press «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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