Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 11
There was a neighbouring prince called Fiachna Duv, and he was the ruler of the Dal Fiatach.
Who acts: neighbouring prince, prince · What happens: be, call · To what, where: neighbouring prince, ruler · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbouring prince, prince), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 prince | acl |
| 7 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fiachna | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ruler | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ruler | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ruler | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ruler | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ruler | det |
| 14 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Fiatach | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fiatach | det |
| 17 | Dal | Dal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fiatach | compound |
| 18 | Fiatach | Fiatach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ruler | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a neighbouring prince | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a neighbouring prince not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | prince | the ruler | of the Dal Fiatach | tree rules |
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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