Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17
She was an earth-woman, and she was banished to the earth.
Who acts: One · What happens: be, banish · To what, where: earth woman, One, earth
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 (One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1884): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 woman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 earth | punct |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 banished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 banished | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 banished | aux:pass |
| 11 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 woman | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 banished | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | One | a earth woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | banish | past · passive | One | the earth | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to earth=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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