Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 14
The priests were reading their offices, and mac an Da’v marvelled at that.
Who acts: priests · What happens: read, mac, marvell · To what, where: offices, Da’v, that
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 (priests), 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 priests | det |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reading | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reading | aux |
| 4 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 offices | nmod:poss |
| 6 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reading | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mac | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mac | cc |
| 9 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reading | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Da’v | det |
| 11 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | obj |
| 12 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mac | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 marvelled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · progressive | the priests | men's offices | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mac | infinitive | the priests not said here | a Da’v | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marvell | participle | the priests not said here | that | 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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