Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 8
The kingdoms of the world did not weigh with him beside the string of her shoe.
Who acts: kingdoms · What happens: not weigh · To what, where: string
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 (kingdoms), 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 kingdoms | det |
| 2 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 weigh | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kingdoms | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weigh | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 weigh | advmod |
| 8 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 weigh | obl |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 string | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 string | det |
| 13 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weigh | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 shoe | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 string | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 weigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not weigh | past · do-support | the kingdoms of the world | the string of Mongan's shoe | with Laca | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: 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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