Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 7
“During that time Beothach, the son of Iarbonel the Prophet, came to Ireland with his people, and there was a great battle between his men and the children of Semion.
Who acts: Beothach, great battle · What happens: come, be · To what, where: Ireland
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 (Beothach, great battle), 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 | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 2 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Beothach | obl |
| 5 | Beothach | Beothach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Beothach | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Iarbonel | case |
| 10 | Iarbonel | Iarbonel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prophet | det |
| 12 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Iarbonel | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beothach | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Ireland | case |
| 16 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 battle | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 battle | amod |
| 26 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 27 | between | between | ADP | _ | 29 men | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 men | nmod:poss |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 battle | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 children | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 children | det |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 men | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Semion | case |
| 34 | Semion | Semion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 children | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Beothach | Ireland | with Beothach's people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | a great battle between Beothach's men and the children of Semion | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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