Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 17
They said that the King of Ulster was dead, and that he, Fiachna Finn, had been elected king in the dead king’s place.
Who acts: things, King · What happens: say, be, elect · To what, where: king, place · 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 (things, King), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dead | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ulster | case |
| 7 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 elected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 elected | cc |
| 12 | that | that | ADP | _ | 13 he | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fiachna | punct |
| 15 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 he | conj |
| 16 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fiachna | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 he | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 elected | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 elected | aux:pass |
| 20 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 elected | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 king | amod |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 elected | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | things = thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the King of Ulster | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | elect | past · perfect · passive | king | the dead king's place | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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