Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 10
Before he had well said it messengers were going from the palace in all directions looking for such a cow.
Who acts: king, medicine, directions · What happens: say, messenger, be, go, look · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, medicine, directions), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 messengers | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 messengers | nsubj |
| 7 | messengers | messenger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 messengers | ccomp |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 were | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 directions | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 directions | det |
| 15 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 palace | nmod |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 directions | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 cow | case |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 cow | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cow | det |
| 20 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 messengers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | king | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | messenger | present | medicine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | medicine not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | medicine not said here | the palace in all directions | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | all directions not said here | for such cow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cow=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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