Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1

The abbot of the Monastery of Moville sent word to the story-tellers of Ireland that when they were in his neighbourhood they should call at the monastery, for he wished to collect and write down the stories which were in danger of being forgotten.

Who acts: abbot, tellers, neighbourhood, stories · What happens: send, be, call, wish, collect, write down · To what, where: word, story tellers, neighbourhood, that, stories, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abbot, tellers, neighbourhood, stories), 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	2 abbot	det
2	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Monastery	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Monastery	det
5	Monastery	Monastery	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 abbot	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Moville	case
7	Moville	Moville	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Monastery	nmod
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 tellers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tellers	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tellers	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct
14	tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ireland	case
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tellers	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 call	obj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 neighbourhood	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 neighbourhood	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 neighbourhood	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 neighbourhood	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neighbourhood	nmod:poss
23	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 call	nsubj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 call	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 call	aux
26	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tellers	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 monastery	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 monastery	det
29	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 call	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wished	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 wished	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wished	nsubj
33	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 collect	mark
35	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wished	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 write	cc
37	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 collect	conj
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 write	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stories	det
40	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 write	obj
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 danger	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 danger	cop
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 danger	case
44	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stories	appos
45	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 forgotten	mark
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 forgotten	aux:pass
47	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 danger	acl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	the abbot of the Monastery of Moville	word	the story tellers of Ireland		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to teller=Destination
2	is	past	tellers = teller		abbot's neighbourhood		tree rules
3	call	should	abbot's neighbourhood	that		at the monastery	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent that=Theme at monastery=Stimulus
4	wish	past	neighbourhood				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	collect not said to happen	to-infinitive	neighbourhood not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	write down	infinitive	neighbourhood not said here	the stories			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
7	is	past	the stories		danger		tree rules
8	forget	gerund · passive		danger not said here			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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