Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 3
He was one who loved God and Ireland, and to the person who could instruct him in these great themes he gave all the interest of his mind and the sympathy of his heart.
Who acts: Finnian · What happens: be, love, instruct, give, interest, mind · To what, where: one, God, Finnian, great themes, interest, mind
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 | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 loved | nsubj |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Ireland | cc |
| 8 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 God | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 instruct | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 instruct | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 instruct | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 instruct | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 instruct | aux |
| 16 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 instruct | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 themes | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 themes | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 themes | amod |
| 21 | themes | theme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 instruct | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 themes | acl:relcl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 interest | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 interest | det |
| 26 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mind | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mind | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 interest | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sympathy | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sympathy | det |
| 32 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mind | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sympathy | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Finnian | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | God and Ireland | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other | could | Finnian | this great themes | to the person | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | give | past | Finnian | all interest of Finnian's mind and the sympathy of Finnian's heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | ||||
| 5 | interest | Finnian's mind and the sympathy of Finnian's heart | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | mind | Finnian | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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