Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 57

Then he went back to Ireland, and after he had been there for some time his wife gave birth to a son.

Who acts: Fiachna, wife · What happens: go back, be, give · To what, where: Ireland, birth, son

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiachna, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 there	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 there	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 there	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 there	cop
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 gave	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 there	obl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 son	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Fiachna		Ireland	then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ireland=Result
2	is	past · perfect	Fiachna			time	there property	tree rules
3	give	past	Fiachna's wife	birth	a son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient

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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