Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 15
One day as Mongan sat in the sun, brooding lamentably on his fate, mac an Da’v came to him.
Who acts: One day, Da’v, king · What happens: sit, brood, mac, come, fate · To what, where: sun, king
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 (One day, Da’v, king), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 Mongan | case |
| 4 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brooding | punct |
| 10 | brooding | brood | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sat | advcl |
| 11 | lamentably | lamentably | ADV | _ | 10 brooding | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 fate | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fate | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brooding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mac | punct |
| 16 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sat | advcl |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Da’v | det |
| 18 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 mac | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | One day as Mongan | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||||
| 2 | brood | gerund | One day as Mongan not said here | on king's fate; lamentably property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on fate=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mac | infinitive | One day as Mongan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | past | a Da’v | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | fate | king | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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