Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 29
But the home of the salmon is his delight, and the sea guards all her creatures.”
Who acts: home, sea · What happens: be, guard · To what, where: delight, creatures
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 (home, sea), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 delight | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 home | det |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delight | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 salmon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 salmon | det |
| 6 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 home | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 delight | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 delight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guards | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 guards | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guards | nsubj |
| 14 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 delight | parataxis |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 creatures | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 creatures | nmod:poss |
| 17 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guards | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 delight | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the home of the salmon | hawk's delight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guard | present | the sea | sea's creatures | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Beneficiary |
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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