Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 8
“I took the lordship of the boars of Ireland.
Who acts: I · What happens: take · To what, where: lordship
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lordship | det |
| 5 | lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 boars | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boars | det |
| 8 | boars | boar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lordship | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ireland | case |
| 10 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boars | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | I | the lordship of the boars of Ireland | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lordship=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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