Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 33
He departed then from the island with Segda and in three days they reached Ireland, and in due time they arrived at Tara.
Who acts: Conn, bees · What happens: depart, reach, arrive · To what, where: island, Ireland, Tara
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, bees), 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 departed | nsubj |
| 2 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 departed | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 departed | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Segda | case |
| 8 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 island | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reached | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 departed | conj |
| 15 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 arrived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 arrived | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 arrived | nsubj |
| 22 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 departed | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Tara | case |
| 24 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | Conn | the island with Segda | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | reach | past | bees = bee | Ireland | day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme | |||
| 3 | arrive | past | bees = bee | Tara | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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