Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 16
Fiachna Duv has only a small force with him at this moment, and we can burn his palace as he burned your father’s palace, and kill himself as he killed your father, and crown you King of Ulster rightfully the way he crowned himself wrongfully as a king.”
Who acts: Fiachna, we · What happens: have, burn, kill, crown · To what, where: small force, palace, Fiachna, father, you
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiachna, we), 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 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fiachna | flat |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 force | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 force | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 force | amod |
| 7 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 force | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 burn | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 burn | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 burn | aux |
| 17 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burn | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 burned | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 burned | nsubj |
| 22 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 burn | advcl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 father | case |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burned | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kill | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kill | cc |
| 29 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 burn | conj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 kill | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 killed | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 killed | nsubj |
| 33 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 kill | advcl |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 killed | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 crown | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 crown | cc |
| 38 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 burn | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 crown | obj |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 crown | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Ulster | case |
| 42 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 King | nmod |
| 43 | rightfully | rightfully | ADV | _ | 45 way | advmod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 way | det |
| 45 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crown | obl |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 crowned | nsubj |
| 47 | crowned | crown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 way | acl:relcl |
| 48 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 crowned | obj |
| 49 | wrongfully | wrongfully | ADV | _ | 47 crowned | advmod |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 52 king | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 king | det |
| 52 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 wrongfully | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Fiachna | a small force | moment | with man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | ||
| 2 | burn | can | we | man's palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | past | Fiachna | your father's palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | we not said here | Fiachna | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | past | Fiachna | your father | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 6 | crown | infinitive | we not said here | you | the way obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme king=Attribute | |||
| 7 | crown | past | Fiachna | Fiachna | wrongfully property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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