Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22
Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac came, with the nobles of clann-Baiscne, and with those of clann-Corcoran and clann-Smo’l; they all came, and they were all bound.
Who acts: Oisi’n · What happens: come, bind · To what, where: Oisi’n
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oisi’n), 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 | Oisi’n | Oisi'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Oscar | cc |
| 3 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oisi’n | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mac | cc |
| 5 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oisi’n | conj |
| 6 | Lugac | Lugac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | flat |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nobles | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 nobles | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nobles | det |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Baiscne | case |
| 13 | clann | clann | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Baiscne | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Baiscne | punct |
| 15 | Baiscne | Baiscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nobles | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 came | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 clann | case |
| 21 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 those | nmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 clann | punct |
| 23 | Corcoran | Corcoran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 clann | flat |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 clann | cc |
| 25 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 clann | conj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Smo’l | punct |
| 27 | Smo’l | Smo'l | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 clann | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 those | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 they | det |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bound | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bound | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bound | aux:pass |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 bound | advmod |
| 37 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 came | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Oisi’n and Oscar and mac | with the nobles of clann Baiscne | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Oisi’n = oisi'n | with those | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind | past · passive | Oisi’n = oisi'n | all property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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