Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2
He thought on the might of God and he became that might, and was tranquil.
Who acts: Finnian · What happens: think, become, be
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), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 God | det |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 God | aux |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 might | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tranquil | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tranquil | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tranquil | cop |
| 16 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Finnian | on the God | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on god=Topic | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Finnian | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Finnian not said here | tranquil property | tree rules |
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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