Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19
He killed Fiachna Finn in that battle, and be crowned himself King of Ulster.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: kill, crown · To what, where: Fiachna Finn, battle, Mongan
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 (Mongan), 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 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Finn | compound |
| 4 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 killed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 battle | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 battle | det |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 killed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crowned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crowned | cc |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 crowned | aux:pass |
| 11 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 killed | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 crowned | obj |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crowned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ulster | case |
| 15 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Mongan | Fiachna Finn | that battle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finn=Theme | |||
| 2 | crown | infinitive · passive | Mongan not said here | Mongan | King of Ulster obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: himself=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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