Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 10
And from his people the Tuatha De’ and the Ande’ came, although their origin is forgotten, and learned people, because of their excellent wisdom and intelligence, say that they came from heaven.
Who acts: Tuatha, excellent wisdom, wisdom · What happens: come, forget, learn, say · To what, where: origin, people, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuatha, excellent wisdom, wisdom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 people | nmod:poss |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tuatha | det |
| 6 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 7 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tuatha | flat |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tuatha | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Ande | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ande | det |
| 11 | Ande | Ande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tuatha | conj |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 Ande | case |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgotten | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 forgotten | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 origin | nmod:poss |
| 17 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgotten | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 19 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 learned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 learned | cc |
| 22 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 learned | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 say | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 say | mark |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 because | fixed |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wisdom | amod |
| 29 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 say | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 intelligence | cc |
| 31 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wisdom | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 say | punct |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 learned | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 came | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 say | ccomp |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 heaven | case |
| 38 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Tuatha and the Ande | from Iarbonel's people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from people=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | forget | present · passive | Tuatha's origin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | the Tuatha and the Ande not said here | people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | past | wisdom | heaven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location |
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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