Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14
This was the fate of Becuma of the White Skin.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: fate
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fate | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fate | det |
| 4 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Becuma | case |
| 6 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fate | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Skin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Skin | det |
| 9 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Skin | amod |
| 10 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fate | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the fate | of Becuma; of the White Skin | tree rules |
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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