Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15
In order to end the trouble between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna Duv the babies were affianced to each other in the cradle on the day after they were born, and the men of Ireland rejoiced at that deed and at that news.
Who acts: day, men · What happens: end, affiance, bear, rejoice · To what, where: trouble, babies, cradle, deed
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 (day, men), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 end | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 end | mark |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trouble | det |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 Finn | case |
| 8 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Finn | compound |
| 9 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 affianced | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Fiachna | cc |
| 11 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Finn | conj |
| 12 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fiachna | flat |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 babies | det |
| 14 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 affianced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 affianced | aux:pass |
| 16 | affianced | affiance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 trouble | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 16 affianced | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cradle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cradle | det |
| 22 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 affianced | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cradle | nmod |
| 26 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 born | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 born | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 born | aux:pass |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 day | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rejoiced | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rejoiced | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 men | det |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Ireland | case |
| 35 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 men | nmod |
| 36 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 deed | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 deed | det |
| 39 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rejoiced | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 news | cc |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 news | case |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 news | det |
| 43 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 deed | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | to-infinitive | the trouble | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trouble=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | affiance | past · passive | the babies | the cradle on the day | between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna; to each | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | the day not said here | babies = baby | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | past | the men of Ireland | that deed and that news | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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