Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 6
This latter child was called mac an Da’v, but the son of Fiachna’s wife was named Mongan.
What happens: call, name · To what, where: latter child, son · 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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 child | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Da’v | det |
| 8 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 named | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 named | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 named | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 14 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Fiachna | case |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 named | aux:pass |
| 18 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 called | conj |
| 19 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 named | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | this latter child | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | name | past · passive | the son of Fiachna's wife | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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