Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 20
And when he had said that, all the people present touched his cheek with their lips, and the love and peace of Ireland entered into his soul, so that he was tranquil and proud and happy.
Who acts: Segda, people, love · What happens: say, present, touch, enter, be, pacify · To what, where: cheek, soul, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Segda, people, love), 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 | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 present | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 people | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 present | nsubj |
| 11 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 present | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lips | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cheek | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entered | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 love | det |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 peace | cc |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 love | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Ireland | case |
| 25 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 peace | nmod |
| 26 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 soul | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 soul | nmod:poss |
| 29 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tranquil | punct |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 tranquil | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 so | fixed |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 tranquil | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 tranquil | cop |
| 35 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 entered | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 proud | cc |
| 37 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tranquil | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 happy | cc |
| 39 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tranquil | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Segda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | present | present | all people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | all people not said here | Segda's cheek | with people's lips | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer with lip=Instrument | |||
| 4 | enter | past | the love and peace of Ireland | Segda's soul | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into soul=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Segda | tranquil property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | Segda not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be | Segda not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | pacify | Ireland | nom peace «state transitive»: of=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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