Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 16
On the return journey he was met by messengers who brought news from Ireland.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: meet, bring · To what, where: Fiachna, return journey, news, Ireland
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 (messengers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 journey | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 journey | det |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 journey | compound |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | aux:pass |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 messengers | case |
| 9 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 met | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 messengers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Ireland | case |
| 14 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · passive | messengers | Fiachna | the return journey | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | bring | past | messengers | news | Ireland | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent news=Theme from 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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