Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 13
“For long, long years I was a hawk.
Who acts: excellent wisdom · What happens: be · To what, where: hawk
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 (excellent 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hawk | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hawk | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hawk | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hawk | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hawk | det |
| 10 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hawk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom | a hawk | year | tree rules |
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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