Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 10
Mongan read away out of the book, for he found it interesting, and he did not want to talk to the charioteer, and mac an Da’v cried amen, amen, every time that Mongan took his breath.
Who acts: Mongan, Da’v, time · What happens: read away, find, not want, talk, mac, cry · To what, where: book, amen, breath
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 (Mongan, Da’v, time), 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 | 2 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 read | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 read | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 found | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 want | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 want | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 want | advmod |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 read | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 talk | mark |
| 21 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 charioteer | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 charioteer | det |
| 24 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 talk | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mac | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mac | cc |
| 27 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 read | conj |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Da’v | det |
| 29 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 cried | nsubj |
| 30 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 mac | ccomp |
| 31 | amen | amen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cried | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 amen | punct |
| 33 | amen | amen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 amen | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 time | punct |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 time | det |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 amen | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 took | nsubj |
| 38 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 took | nsubj |
| 39 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 time | acl:relcl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 breath | nmod:poss |
| 41 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read away | past | Mongan | the book | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | Mongan | book | interesting property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | not want | past · do-support | Mongan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mongan not said here | to the charioteer | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to charioteer=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | mac | infinitive | Mongan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | a Da’v | amen and amen and every time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amen=Topic | ||||
| 7 | take | past | every time | Mongan's breath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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