Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 53
On reaching Tara, Delvcaem, who was more powerful in art and magic than Becuma, ordered the latter to go away, and she did so.
Who acts: Tara · What happens: reach, be, order, go away, do · To what, where: Tara, art
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 (Tara), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ordered | advcl |
| 3 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Delvcaem | punct |
| 5 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tara | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 powerful | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 powerful | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 powerful | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 powerful | advmod |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tara | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 art | case |
| 12 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 powerful | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 magic | cc |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 art | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Becuma | case |
| 16 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 powerful | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 latter | det |
| 20 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ordered | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 latter | xcomp |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 did | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ordered | conj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 did | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | Tara | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tara=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Tara | art and magic | than Becuma; powerful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | order | past | latter property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go away | to-infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past | Tara | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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