Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 1

In the days of long ago and the times that have disappeared for ever, there was one Fiachna Finn the son of Baltan, the son of Murchertach, the son of Muredach, the son of Eogan, the son of Neill.

Who acts: times, one · What happens: disappear, be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (times, one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 was	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ago	case
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ago	advmod
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 days	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 times	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 times	det
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 disappeared	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 disappeared	aux
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 times	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 disappeared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 was	nsubj
19	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 one	appos
20	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Fiachna	flat
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fiachna	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Baltan	case
24	Baltan	Baltan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fiachna	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Murchertach	case
29	Murchertach	Murchertach	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 son	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 son	det
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fiachna	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Muredach	case
34	Muredach	Muredach	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 son	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 son	det
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Muredach	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Eogan	case
39	Eogan	Eogan	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 son	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 son	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 son	det
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Eogan	appos
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Neill	case
44	Neill	Neill	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 son	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present · perfect	the times						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	one			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «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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