Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 12
Such a debate was in course, and Segda, to whom both sides addressed gentle and courteous arguments, grew more and more disconsolate.
Who acts: sides · What happens: address, grow · To what, where: gentle arguments
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sides), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 debate | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 debate | det |
| 3 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 in | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 debate | acl:relcl |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 in | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Segda | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Segda | cc |
| 9 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 debate | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whom | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 debate | conj |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sides | det |
| 14 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 addressed | nsubj |
| 15 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 arguments | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 courteous | cc |
| 18 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gentle | conj |
| 19 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 addressed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grew | punct |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 addressed | conj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 grew | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 disconsolate | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 disconsolate | advmod |
| 25 | disconsolate | disconsolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 debate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | both sides | gentle arguments | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Destination | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | both sides not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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