Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 1
“Good my soul, Tibraide’!” cried the King of Leinster, and he gave Mongan a kiss.
Who acts: Good soul, soul · What happens: cry, give · To what, where: King, kiss, Mongan
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good soul, soul), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 soul | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soul | amod |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 soul | nmod:poss |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tibraide | punct |
| 6 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 soul | appos |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tibraide | punct |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tibraide | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tibraide | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Leinster | case |
| 14 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 19 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 kiss | det |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | my Good soul | the King of Leinster | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | past | soul | a kiss | Mongan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mongan=Recipient kiss=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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