Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 13

Fionn, thus pressed, told of the coming of Cael of the Iron, of the challenge the latter had issued, and that he, Fionn, was off to Tara of the Kings to find Caelte mac Rona’n.

Who acts: challenge · What happens: press, tell, come, issue, be, find · To what, where: Fionn, latter, Caelte mac · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (challenge), 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	4 pressed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fionn	punct
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 pressed	advmod
4	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pressed	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	18 challenge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 challenge	det
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 challenge	csubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Cael	case
11	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Iron	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Iron	det
14	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Cael	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 challenge	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 challenge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 challenge	det
18	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 latter	det
20	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 issued	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 issued	aux
22	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 challenge	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 was	cc
25	that	that	ADP	_	26 he	case
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 was	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Fionn	punct
28	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 he	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 he	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Tara	cop
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 was	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Tara	case
33	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Kings	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Kings	det
36	Kings	King	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 Tara	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 find	mark
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pressed	advcl
39	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 mac	compound
40	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	obj
41	Rona’n	Rona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 mac	appos
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	press	participle · passive		Fionn	thus property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result
2	tell speech: assert	participle			of the challenge	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	gerund			of Cael of the Iron	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of cael=Initial_Location
4	issue	past · perfect · passive	the challenge not said here	the latter		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past			to Tara; of the Kings	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive		Caelte mac		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mac=Topic

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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