Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 18
He collected his forces then, and he burned Fiachna Duv’s fortress, and he killed Fiachna Duv, and he was crowned King of Ulster.
Who acts: friend · What happens: collect, burn, kill, crown · To what, where: forces, fortress, Fiachna, friend
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 (friend), 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 collected | nsubj |
| 2 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 forces | nmod:poss |
| 4 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 collected | obj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 collected | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 burned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 burned | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 burned | nsubj |
| 9 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 collected | conj |
| 10 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fortress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fiachna | flat |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Fiachna | case |
| 13 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burned | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 collected | conj |
| 18 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fiachna | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crowned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crowned | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 crowned | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 crowned | aux:pass |
| 24 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 collected | parataxis |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 crowned | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Ulster | case |
| 27 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | friend | friend's forces | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | past | friend | Fiachna's fortress | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | friend | Fiachna | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiachna=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crown | past · passive | friend | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme king=Attribute |
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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