Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 13
And he sent lithe men with him so that they might run back in endless succession with the news.
Who acts: Fionn, racers · What happens: send, run back · To what, where: lithe men, endless succession
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, racers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lithe | lithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 run | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 run | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 succession | case |
| 15 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 succession | amod |
| 16 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 news | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 news | det |
| 19 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Fionn | lithe men | with man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | run back | might | racers = racer | endless succession | with the news | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in succession=Trajectory |
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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