Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26
I was the beloved, the well known, the leader of the herds of Ireland.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, know · To what, where: leader
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beloved | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beloved | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beloved | det |
| 4 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 known | det |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 known | advmod |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 beloved | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leader | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leader | det |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 herds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 herds | det |
| 14 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leader | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Ireland | case |
| 16 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 herds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | beloved property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | I not said here | the leader of the herds of Ireland | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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