Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 35

His father delivered to him the sceptre of Ireland, and he set out on a journey to find the son of a sinless couple such as he had been told of.

Who acts: father · What happens: deliver, set out, find, tell · To what, where: sceptre, Tara, journey, son, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delivered	nsubj
3	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delivered	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sceptre	det
7	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delivered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Ireland	case
9	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sceptre	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delivered	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 journey	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 journey	det
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 son	det
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 couple	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 couple	det
24	sinless	sinless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 couple	amod
25	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 son	nmod
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 couple	amod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 told	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 told	aux:pass
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 find	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 told	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	deliver	past	Tara's father	the sceptre of Ireland	Tara		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme to he=Destination
2	set out	past	father			a journey	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	father not said here	the son of a sinless couple			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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