Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 43

Mongan then took on himself the form of Tibraide’ and he turned mac an Da’v into the shape of the clerk.

Who acts: Mongan · What happens: take, turn mac, form · To what, where: form, Da’v, shape, Tibraide

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 (Mongan), 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	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 took	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Tibraide	case
9	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 form	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	mac	mac	ADP	_	13 turned	compound:prt
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Da’v	det
16	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 turned	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 shape	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shape	det
19	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turned	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 clerk	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clerk	det
22	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shape	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Mongan	the form of Tibraide		then	on Mongan	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme on himself=Destination
2	turn mac	past	Mongan	a Da’v	the shape of the clerk			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent da'v=Theme into shape=Trajectory
3	form			Tibraide				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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