Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23
He left Tara that night, and for the space of a year he was not seen again in Ireland.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: leave, not see · To what, where: Tara, messenger, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 space | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 space | det |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 space | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 seen | advmod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 left | advcl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 seen | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Ireland | case |
| 20 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | messenger | Tara | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tara=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | messenger | Ireland | again | for the space of a year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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