Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 42
Come, my son,” she said to Segda, for it was Segda’s mother who had come to save him; and then that sinless queen and her son went back to their home of enchantment, leaving the king and Fionn and the magicians and nobles of Ireland astonished and ashamed.
Who acts: you, Becuma, effect, Segda mother, sinless queen · What happens: come, say, be, save, go back, leave · To what, where: Segda, king · 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 (you, Becuma, effect, Segda mother), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Segda | case |
| 10 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mother | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Segda | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Segda | cop |
| 15 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mother | compound |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Segda | case |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 mother | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 save | mark |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 save | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 went | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 queen | det |
| 28 | sinless | sinless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 queen | amod |
| 29 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 son | cc |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 queen | conj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 home | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 home | nmod:poss |
| 37 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 enchantment | case |
| 39 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 home | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leaving | punct |
| 41 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 went | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 king | det |
| 43 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 leaving | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Fionn | cc |
| 45 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 king | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 magicians | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 magicians | det |
| 48 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 king | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 nobles | cc |
| 50 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 magicians | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Ireland | case |
| 52 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 nobles | nmod |
| 53 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 leaving | xcomp |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 ashamed | cc |
| 55 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 astonished | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | my son vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Becuma | Segda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to segda=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | effect | 's Segda | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past · perfect | Segda mother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | Segda mother not said here | Segda | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go back in a quote | past | that sinless queen and Becuma's son | then | to queen's home of enchantment result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | |||
| 7 | leave in a quote | gerund | that sinless queen and Becuma's son not said here | the king and Fionn and the magicians and nobles of Ireland | astonished property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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