Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22
“I have been informed,” Conn explained, “that if the son of a sinless couple is brought to Tara and is bathed in the waters of Ireland the land will be delivered from those ills.”
Who acts: Conn · What happens: inform, explain, bring, bath, deliver · To what, where: Conn, son, Tara, land, waters, ills · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 informed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 informed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 informed | aux:pass |
| 5 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 explained | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
| 8 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 explained | nsubj |
| 9 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 delivered | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 delivered | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 brought | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 brought | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 couple | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 couple | det |
| 18 | sinless | sinless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 couple | amod |
| 19 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux:pass |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 delivered | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Tara | case |
| 23 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bathed | cc |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bathed | aux:pass |
| 26 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 brought | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 waters | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waters | det |
| 29 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bathed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Ireland | case |
| 31 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 waters | nmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bathed | obj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 delivered | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 delivered | aux:pass |
| 36 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 explained | ccomp |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 ills | case |
| 38 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 ills | det |
| 39 | ills | ill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 delivered | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 explained | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Conn | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Conn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | the son of a sinless couple | Tara | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tara=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bath in a quote | present · passive | the land | the waters of Ireland | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deliver in a quote | future · passive | that ills | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from ill=Initial_Location |
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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