Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 37
“Becuma is the cause, and she must be banished.”
Who acts: Becuma · What happens: be, banish · To what, where: cause, Becuma
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 (Becuma), 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 cause | punct |
| 2 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cause | det |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 banished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 banished | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 banished | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 banished | aux:pass |
| 11 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cause | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Becuma | the cause | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | banish in a quote | must · passive | Becuma | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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