Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 33
The gloomy king challenged him to combat also, and in his honour Art put on the battle harness which he had brought from Ireland.
Who acts: gloomy king · What happens: challenge, combat, put, bring · To what, where: Delvcaem, honour Art, battle harness, Ireland
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gloomy king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 challenged | nsubj |
| 4 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 challenged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 combat | mark |
| 7 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 challenged | xcomp |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 combat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Art | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Art | nmod:poss |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Art | compound |
| 14 | Art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 challenged | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 harness | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 harness | det |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 harness | compound |
| 19 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 harness | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Ireland | case |
| 25 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 challenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge | past | the gloomy king | Delvcaem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | combat | to-infinitive | the gloomy king not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | the gloomy king not said here | King's honour Art | on the battle harness | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on harness=Destination | |||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the battle harness | Ireland | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from ireland=Initial_Location |
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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