Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 21
Then he did bring Mongan back, and by his means peace was made between Mongan and Fiachna Duv, and Mongan was married to his cradle-bride, the young Duv Laca.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: bring back, mean, make, marry · To what, where: Mongan, peace · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bring | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 means | cc |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 means | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 means | nmod:poss |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | parataxis |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 means | ccomp |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 Mongan | case |
| 16 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Fiachna | cc |
| 18 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mongan | conj |
| 19 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fiachna | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 married | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 married | cc |
| 22 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 married | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 married | aux:pass |
| 24 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bride | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bride | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bride | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 cradle | punct |
| 29 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 married | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Duv | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Duv | det |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Duv | amod |
| 33 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 bride | appos |
| 34 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Duv | flat |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past · do-support | Mongan | Mongan | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mongan=Destination | |||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | peace | between Mongan and Fiachna | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | Mongan | to Mongan's cradle bride | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to bride=Co-Patient |
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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