Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 32

Lots of the people in the Shi’ learned that song by heart, and they applied it to every kind of circumstance.

Who acts: Lots · What happens: learn, apply · To what, where: song

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lots), 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	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 learned	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 ’	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ’	det
7	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ’	compound
8	’	'	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
9	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 song	mark
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learned	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 heart	case
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 applied	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 applied	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 applied	nsubj
17	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 learned	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 applied	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 kind	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 kind	det
21	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 applied	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 circumstance	case
23	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kind	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Lots of the people in the Shi ’	song				by heart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
2	apply	past	Lots = lot	song				to every kind of circumstance	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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