Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 1
The Shee an Gannon was born in the morning, named at noon, and went in the evening to ask his daughter of the king of Erin.
What happens: bear, name, go, ask · To what, where: Shee, daughter
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shee | det |
| 2 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Gannon | det |
| 4 | Gannon | Gannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shee | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 born | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 noon | case |
| 13 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 named | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 evening | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ask | mark |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Erin | case |
| 28 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the Shee | morning | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | noon | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | evening | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | his daughter of the king of Erin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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