Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6
Now there were three great burying-places in Ireland--the Brugh of the Boyne in Ulster, over which Angus Og is chief and god; the Shi’ mound of Cruachan Ahi, where Ethal Anbual presides over the underworld of Connacht, and Tailltin, in Royal Meath.
Who acts: three great burying places, Ethal · What happens: be, bury, preside · To what, where: Angus chief, Brugh, underworld
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three great burying places, Ethal), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 places | nummod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 places | amod |
| 6 | burying | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 places | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 burying | punct |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ireland | case |
| 10 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 places | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Brugh | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Brugh | det |
| 13 | Brugh | Brugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 places | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Boyne | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Boyne | det |
| 16 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brugh | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Ulster | case |
| 18 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brugh | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chief | punct |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 chief | obl |
| 22 | Angus | Angus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 chief | compound |
| 23 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Angus | flat |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 chief | cop |
| 25 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brugh | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 god | cc |
| 27 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chief | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 Ahi | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Shi | det |
| 30 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 mound | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 30 Shi | case |
| 32 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Ahi | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Cruachan | case |
| 34 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 mound | nmod |
| 35 | Ahi | Ahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 were | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 presides | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 presides | advmod |
| 38 | Ethal | Ethal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 presides | nsubj |
| 39 | Anbual | Anbual | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Ethal | flat |
| 40 | presides | preside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Ahi | acl:relcl |
| 41 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 underworld | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 underworld | det |
| 43 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 presides | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Connacht | case |
| 45 | Connacht | Connacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 underworld | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Tailltin | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Tailltin | cc |
| 48 | Tailltin | Tailltin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ahi | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Meath | punct |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 Meath | case |
| 51 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Meath | amod |
| 52 | Meath | Meath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ahi | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | three great burying places in Ireland | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bury | gerund | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Angus chief and god | the Brugh of the Boyne in Ulster | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | preside | present | Ethal | the underworld of Connacht | 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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