Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 44
He is required elsewhere by his beloved, and Morgan went to rejoin his queen in the world that comes after the Many-Coloured Land, and his victor shore that knowledgeable head away from its giant shoulders.
Who acts: Morgan, world · What happens: require, go, rejoin, come · To what, where: husband, queen, world
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 (Morgan, world), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 required | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 required | aux:pass |
| 3 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 3 required | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 beloved | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 required | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 required | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rejoin | mark |
| 13 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 queen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoin | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoin | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 world | acl:relcl |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 Land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Land | det |
| 23 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Coloured | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Many | punct |
| 25 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Land | amod |
| 26 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shore | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shore | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 shore | nmod:poss |
| 30 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shore | compound |
| 31 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 away | nsubj |
| 33 | knowledgeable | knowledgeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 head | amod |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 away | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 shore | acl:relcl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 shoulders | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 38 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 shoulders | amod |
| 39 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 away | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present · passive | husband | by husband's beloved; husband's victor shore obl; elsewhere property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Morgan | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rejoin | to-infinitive | Morgan not said here | husband's queen | the world | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | |||
| 4 | come | present | the world | after the Coloured Land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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