Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 3
In particular he wished to gather tales which told of the deeds that had been done before the Gospel came to Ireland.
Who acts: neighbourhood, tales, Gospel · What happens: wish, gather, tell, do, come · To what, where: particular, tales, deeds, Ireland · 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 (neighbourhood, tales, Gospel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:2165): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 particular | case |
| 2 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wished | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 gather | mark |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tales | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 deeds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 deeds | det |
| 12 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 deeds | acl:relcl |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Gospel | det |
| 19 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Ireland | case |
| 22 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | neighbourhood | particular | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather not said to happen | to-infinitive | neighbourhood not said here | tales | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | tales | of the deeds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | the deeds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the Gospel | Ireland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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