Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10
The King of Leinster at that time was Branduv, the son of Echach.
Who acts: time · What happens: be · To what, where: Branduv
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leinster | case |
| 4 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Branduv | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Branduv | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Branduv | cop |
| 9 | Branduv | Branduv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Echach | case |
| 14 | Echach | Echach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that time | Branduv | tree rules |
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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