Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 1
Mongan’s wife at that time was Bro’tiarna, the Flame Lady.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: Bro’tiarna
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mongan | case |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Bro’tiarna | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Bro’tiarna | cop |
| 8 | Bro’tiarna | Bro'tiarna | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lady | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lady | det |
| 11 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | compound |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bro’tiarna | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bro’tiarna | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mongan's wife at that time | Bro’tiarna and the Flame Lady | 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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