Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1
But Finnian was not one who remained long in bewilderment.
Who acts: Finnian, one · What happens: not be, remain · To what, where: one, bewilderment
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 remained | cc |
| 2 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 remained | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bewilderment | case |
| 10 | bewilderment | bewilderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Finnian | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | one | bewilderment | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bewilderment=Location |
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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