Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 47
When they neared that country they found a great crowd going on the road with them, and they learned that the king was giving a feast in honour of his marriage to Duv Laca, for the year of waiting was nearly out, and the king had sworn he would delay no longer.
Who acts: Mongan, country, great crowd, king, waiting · What happens: near, find, go, learn, give, be · To what, where: great crowd, road, feast, Duv, honour, marriage
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, country, great crowd, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 neared | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 neared | nsubj |
| 3 | neared | near | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 neared | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crowd | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crowd | amod |
| 10 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 crowd | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 learned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 learned | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learned | nsubj |
| 20 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 neared | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 giving | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 giving | aux |
| 25 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 learned | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 feast | det |
| 27 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 honour | case |
| 29 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 marriage | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 32 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 honour | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Duv | case |
| 34 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obl |
| 35 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Duv | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 year | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 year | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 year | det |
| 39 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 out | mark |
| 41 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 out | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 out | cop |
| 43 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 44 out | advmod |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 39 year | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 sworn | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 sworn | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 king | det |
| 48 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sworn | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 sworn | aux |
| 50 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 neared | conj |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 delay | nsubj |
| 52 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 delay | aux |
| 53 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 sworn | ccomp |
| 54 | no | no | ADV | _ | 55 longer | advmod |
| 55 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 53 delay | advmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 neared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | past | Mongan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | past | country | a great crowd | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a great crowd not said here | the road | with Mongan | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | learn | past | Mongan | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give | past · progressive | the king | a feast | Duv | honour of King's marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to duv=Recipient | ||
| 6 | is | past | waiting | nearly, out property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | swear | past · perfect | the king | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | delay | would | King | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | honour | King's marriage | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | marry | King | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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