Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 31
And he thereupon bound these protections and safeguards on the Ard-Ri’ with an oath.
Who acts: person · What happens: bind · To what, where: protections, Ard Ri
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 (person), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bound | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bound | nsubj |
| 3 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 bound | advmod |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 protections | det |
| 6 | protections | protection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bound | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 safeguards | cc |
| 8 | safeguards | safeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 protections | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Ri | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ri | det |
| 11 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ri | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ard | punct |
| 13 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obl |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ri | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 oath | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 oath | det |
| 17 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | person | this protections and safeguards | the Ard Ri | with a oath; thereupon property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent protection=Patient with oath=Co-Patient |
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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