Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 11
He is the priest of Cell Camain, and he is the chief of those two.”
Who acts: Mananna’n · What happens: be · To what, where: priest, chief
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mananna’n), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 priest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 priest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Cell | case |
| 6 | Cell | Cell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 priest | nmod |
| 7 | Camain | Camain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cell | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chief | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chief | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 chief | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 chief | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 priest | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 two | case |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 two | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 chief | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chief | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 priest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mananna’n = mananna'n | the priest | of Cell | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Mananna’n = mananna'n | the chief | of that two | tree rules |
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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