Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 7
Mongan loved Duv Laca of the White Hand better than he loved his life, better than he loved his honour.
Who acts: Mongan, Laca · What happens: love, honour · To what, where: Duv Laca, life, honour
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 (Mongan, Laca), 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 | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Laca | compound |
| 4 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hand | det |
| 7 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hand | amod |
| 8 | Hand | Hand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Laca | nmod |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 loved | parataxis |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loved | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loved | punct |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 loved | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 loved | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | nsubj |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 honour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loved | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Mongan | Duv Laca of the White Hand | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laca=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | past | Laca | Laca's life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | past | Laca | Laca's honour | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | honour | Laca | nom honour «state 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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