Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 19
It was a great and joyous gathering that was going to the feast.
Who acts: other, great gathering · What happens: be, go · To what, where: great gathering, feast
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, great gathering), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gathering | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathering | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gathering | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gathering | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 joyous | cc |
| 6 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | conj |
| 7 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gathering | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 feast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | other | a great gathering | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | a great gathering | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location |
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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