Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 18
He at once took ship for Ireland, and found that all he had been told was true, and he took up the government of Ulster.
Who acts: Fiachna, all · What happens: take, find, tell, be, take up · To what, where: ship, Fiachna, government · 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 (Fiachna, all), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 took | obl |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 true | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 true | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Ulster | case |
| 27 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 government | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Fiachna | ship | for Ireland | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ship=Theme for ireland=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | find | past | Fiachna not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Fiachna | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take up | past | Fiachna | the government of Ulster | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=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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