Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 24
Mongan and Duv Laca went out then and welcomed the King of Leinster.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: go out, welcome · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Duv | cc |
| 3 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mongan | conj |
| 4 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Duv | flat |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 welcomed | cc |
| 9 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 welcomed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Leinster | case |
| 13 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Mongan and Duv | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | welcome | past | Mongan and Duv not said here | the King of Leinster | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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