Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 1
Art, as his father had done before him, set out for the Many-Coloured Land, but it was from Inver Colpa he embarked and not from Ben Edair.
Who acts: Art, Land, Inver Colpa · What happens: do, set out, be, embark · To what, where: Inver Colpa
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art, Land, Inver Colpa), 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 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Art | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 done | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Land | det |
| 15 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Coloured | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Many | punct |
| 17 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Land | amod |
| 18 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 embarked | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 embarked | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Colpa | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Colpa | cop |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Colpa | case |
| 24 | Inver | Inver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Colpa | compound |
| 25 | Colpa | Colpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 embarked | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 embarked | nsubj |
| 27 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Ben | cc |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 Ben | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Ben | case |
| 31 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 embarked | conj |
| 32 | Edair | Edair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ben | flat |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Art | before father | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set out | participle | Art not said here | for the Coloured Land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Land | Inver Colpa | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | embark | past | Inver Colpa | tree rules |
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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