Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7
Fourteen battles, seven of the reserve and seven of the regular Fianna, had been taken by the Chief on a great march and manoeuvre.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: take · To what, where: Fourteen battles, great march
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 (Chief), 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 | Fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 battles | nummod |
| 2 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seven | punct |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 battles | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 reserve | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reserve | det |
| 7 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seven | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seven | cc |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 reserve | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fianna | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fianna | det |
| 12 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Fianna | amod |
| 13 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seven | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 battles | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Chief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Chief | det |
| 20 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 march | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 march | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 march | amod |
| 24 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 manoeuvre | cc |
| 26 | manoeuvre | manoeuvre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 march | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the Chief | Fourteen battles | a great march and manoeuvre | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on march=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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