Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 11
He sent messengers before him to Big Eolgarg warning him of his coming, of his intention, and of the number of troops he was bringing; and when he landed Eolgarg met him with an equal force, and they fought together.
Who acts: king, Eolgarg, messengers · What happens: send, warn, come, bring, land, meet · To what, where: messengers, Big, king
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Eolgarg, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Big | case |
| 7 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | Eolgarg | Eolgarg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Big | flat |
| 9 | warning | warn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sent | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 warning | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 coming | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 warning | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 intention | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 intention | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 intention | nmod:poss |
| 17 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bringing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bringing | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bringing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 troops | case |
| 24 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 number | nmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bringing | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bringing | aux |
| 27 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sent | advcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 met | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 met | cc |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 landed | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 landed | nsubj |
| 32 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 met | advcl |
| 33 | Eolgarg | Eolgarg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 met | nsubj |
| 34 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 met | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 force | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 force | det |
| 38 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 force | amod |
| 39 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 met | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fought | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 fought | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 fought | nsubj |
| 43 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 44 | together | together | ADV | _ | 43 fought | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | messengers | Big | before Lochlann | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to big=Destination | ||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | gerund | king not said here | king | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | king | of king's intention | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of intention=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · progressive | king | of the number of troops | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of number=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | land | past | king | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | meet | past | Eolgarg | king | with a equal force | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with force=Instrument | |||
| 7 | fight | past | messengers = messenger | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | intend | king | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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