Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 55
Fionn then set out towards Tara of the Kings, for he thought Caelte mac Romin would surely be there; “and if he is not there,” said the champion to himself, “then I shall find him at Cesh Corran of the Fianna.”
Who acts: Fionn, champion · What happens: set out, think, be, not be, say, find · To what, where: Tara, Caelte, Fionn, Cesh Corran · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fionn, champion), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 Tara | case |
| 6 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kings | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kings | det |
| 9 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Tara | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 14 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 15 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Caelte | flat |
| 16 | Romin | Romin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Caelte | flat |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 Caelte | nmod |
| 18 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 20 there | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 there | cop |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 would | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 there | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 there | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 there | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 there | advmod |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 said | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 there | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 there | punct |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 champion | det |
| 33 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 himself | case |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 said | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 find | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 find | punct |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 find | advmod |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 find | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 find | aux |
| 41 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 find | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 Corran | case |
| 44 | Cesh | Cesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Corran | compound |
| 45 | Corran | Corran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 find | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Fianna | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Fianna | det |
| 48 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Corran | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Fionn | Tara of the Kings | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards tara=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Fionn | Caelte | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot caelte=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | surely, there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Fionn | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the champion | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | find in a quote | shall | the champion = champion | Fionn | Cesh Corran of the Fianna | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at corran=Asset |
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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