Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22
In due time a messenger came from the king directing Art to leave Tara instantly, and to leave Ireland for one full year.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: come, direct, leave · To what, where: Art, Tara, Ireland
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 messenger | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | directing | direct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 11 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 directing | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 leave | mark |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 directing | advcl |
| 14 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 leave | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leave | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 20 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 year | nummod |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 year | amod |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a messenger | time | from the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | direct | gerund | a messenger not said here | Art | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent art=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | a messenger not said here | Tara | instantly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tara=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | a messenger not said here | Ireland | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=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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