Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1

Fionn mac Uail was the most prudent chief of an army in the world, but he was not always prudent on his own account.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, not be, account · To what, where: prudent chief, own account

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chief	nsubj
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fionn	flat
3	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fionn	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chief	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chief	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 prudent	advmod
7	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chief	amod
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 army	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 army	det
11	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chief	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 army	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prudent	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 prudent	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 prudent	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 prudent	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 prudent	advmod
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 prudent	advmod
21	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chief	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 account	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 account	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 account	amod
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prudent	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fionn	the prudent chief		of a army in the world	tree rules
2	not is	past	Fionn		Fionn's own account	always, prudent property	tree rules
3	account		Fionn				nom account «communication 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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