Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9
She had run away from her husband Labraid and had taken refuge with Gadiar, one of the sons of Mananna’n mac Lir, the god of the sea, and the ruler, therefore, of that sphere.
Who acts: council · What happens: run away, take · To what, where: refuge
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 (council), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 8 | Labraid | Labraid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 run | conj |
| 12 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Gadiar | case |
| 14 | Gadiar | Gadiar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Gadiar | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sons | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sons | det |
| 19 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mac | case |
| 21 | Mananna’n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mac | compound |
| 22 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sons | nmod |
| 23 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mac | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 god | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 god | det |
| 26 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mac | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 god | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ruler | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ruler | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ruler | det |
| 33 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl:agent |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 therefore | punct |
| 35 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sphere | punct |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 sphere | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 sphere | det |
| 39 | sphere | sphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past · perfect | council | from council's husband; away, therefore property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from husband=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | council not said here | refuge | with Gadiar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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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