Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 14
When Duv Laca went away with the King of Leinster, her servant, mac an Da’v’s wife, went with her, so there were two wifeless men in Ulster at that time, namely, Mongan the king and mac an Da’v his servant.
Who acts: Duv, you, wife, two wifeless men · What happens: go away, mac, go, be · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, you, wife, two wifeless men), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duv | flat |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mac | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Leinster | case |
| 10 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 servant | punct |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 servant | nmod:poss |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 15 | mac | mac | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Da’v | det |
| 17 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Da’v | case |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mac | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wife | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 were | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 were | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 were | expl |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mac | advcl |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 men | nummod |
| 29 | wifeless | wifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 were | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Ulster | case |
| 32 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 men | nmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 men | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 namely | punct |
| 37 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mongan | punct |
| 39 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 time | appos |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 king | det |
| 41 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Mongan | appos |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 mac | cc |
| 43 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 king | conj |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 servant | det |
| 45 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 servant | compound |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 servant | nmod:poss |
| 47 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Mongan | appos |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Duv | with the King of Leinster and Duv's servant; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with king=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | mac | imperative | you not said here | a Da’v's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a Da’v's wife not said here | with Duv | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | be | past | two wifeless men in Ulster at that time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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