Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 116
They fought for nine hours; and then the son of the king of Lochlin stopped, gave up his claim, and left the field.
Who acts: people, son · What happens: fight, stop, give up, leave, claim · To what, where: claim, field
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, son), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 hours | case |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fought | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stopped | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lochlin | case |
| 15 | Lochlin | Lochlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stopped | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claim | nmod:poss |
| 21 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | people | hour | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the son of the king of Lochlin | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | the son of the king of Lochlin not said here | son's claim | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Source | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | people not said here | the field | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 5 | claim | son | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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