Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16
A sturdy, bellicose, forthright personage he was indeed.
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: 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 | 2 sturdy | det |
| 2 | sturdy | sturdy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bellicose | punct |
| 4 | bellicose | bellicose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sturdy | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 personage | punct |
| 6 | forthright | forthright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 personage | compound |
| 7 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sturdy | appos |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 personage | acl:relcl |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 was | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sturdy | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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