Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2
They discussed it unendingly, and at some moment of the day a man upbraided Fionn because he had not found Caelte the son of Rona’n as had been agreed on.
Who acts: hearts, man · What happens: discuss, upbraid, not find, agree on · To what, where: conclusion, Fionn, Caelte
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 (hearts, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 discussed | nsubj |
| 2 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 discussed | obj |
| 4 | unendingly | unendingly | ADV | _ | 2 discussed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 upbraided | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 upbraided | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 upbraided | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moment | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 upbraided | nsubj |
| 15 | upbraided | upbraid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 discussed | conj |
| 16 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 upbraided | obj |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 found | advmod |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 upbraided | advcl |
| 22 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Rona’n | case |
| 26 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 agreed | advmod |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 agreed | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 agreed | aux:pass |
| 30 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 found | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 agreed | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 discussed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | past | hearts = heart | conclusion | unendingly property | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | upbraid | past | a man | Fionn | moment | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme | |||
| 3 | not find | past · perfect | man | Caelte | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent caelte=Theme son=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | agree on speech: agree | past · perfect · passive | man not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
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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