Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 13
From this place to the Hill of the Rushes, Slieve Luachra of Munster, is exactly sixty miles.
Who acts: place · What happens: be · To what, where: sixty miles
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 miles | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Hill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hill | det |
| 6 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rushes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rushes | det |
| 9 | Rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Hill | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Luachra | punct |
| 11 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Luachra | compound |
| 12 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hill | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Munster | case |
| 14 | Munster | Munster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Luachra | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 miles | cop |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 sixty | advmod |
| 18 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 miles | nummod |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 miles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this place to the Hill of the Rushes and Slieve Luachra of Munster | sixty miles | 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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