Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 5
I had writhed from the bonds of age and was young again.
Who acts: I · What happens: writhe, be, bond · To what, where: age
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 | 3 writhed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 writhed | aux |
| 3 | writhed | writhe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bonds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bonds | det |
| 6 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 writhed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 age | case |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bonds | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 young | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 young | cop |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 writhed | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 young | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 writhed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | writhe | past · perfect | I | from the bonds of age | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from bond=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I not said here | again | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bond | age | nom bond «phenomenon 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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