Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

He was under the guidance of the stars and the great luminaries.

Who acts: duty · What happens: be · To what, where: guidance

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duty), 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	5 guidance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guidance	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 guidance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guidance	det
5	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stars	det
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guidance	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 luminaries	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 luminaries	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 luminaries	amod
12	luminaries	luminary	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stars	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guidance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	duty			the guidance		of the stars and the great luminaries	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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