Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 28
“I will kill Goll mor mac Morna first, and after that I will kill Fionn, and after that I will kill every Fenian of the Fianna-Finn.”
Who acts: horrible daughter · What happens: kill · To what, where: Goll mor mac, Fionn, Fenian
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 (horrible daughter), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | compound |
| 6 | mor | mor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | compound |
| 7 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obj |
| 8 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | appos |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 kill | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kill | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 kill | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kill | conj |
| 17 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kill | cc |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 kill | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 kill | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 kill | aux |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kill | conj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 Fenian | det |
| 26 | Fenian | Fenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Finn | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Finn | det |
| 29 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Finn | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Fianna | punct |
| 31 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fenian | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | future | the horrible daughter of Conaran = daughter | Goll mor mac | first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mac=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | future | the horrible daughter of Conaran = daughter | Fionn | after that | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill in a quote | future | the horrible daughter of Conaran = daughter | every Fenian of the Fianna Finn | after that | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fenian=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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