Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9

Fionn, with Cona’n the Swearer and the dogs Bran and Sceo’lan, was sitting on the hunting-mound at the top of Cesh Corran.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: sit · To what, where: hunting mound

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	15 sitting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Cona’n	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Cona’n	case
4	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fionn	appos
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Swearer	det
6	Swearer	Swearer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cona’n	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dogs	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fionn	conj
10	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dogs	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Sceo’lan	cc
12	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bran	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fionn	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 mound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mound	det
18	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mound	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 hunting	punct
20	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Cesh	case
25	Cesh	Cesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 top	nmod
26	Corran	Corran	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Cesh	flat
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Fionn and the dogs			the hunting mound		at the top of Cesh	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location

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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