Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2

He had days and nights there and adventures there, and was able to bring back the memory of these.

Who acts: Uail · What happens: have, be, bring back · To what, where: memory

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 (Uail), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nights	cc
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 adventures	cc
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	conj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 adventures	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 able	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 able	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bring	mark
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 bring	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 memory	det
18	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 these	case
20	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 memory	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Uail		there	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past					able property	tree rules
3	bring back	to-infinitive		the memory of these				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent memory=Theme

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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