Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 8
“‘Be quiet, King of the River,’ said the fisherman, ‘give in to Doom,’ said he.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: be, say, give in · To what, where: fisherman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 3 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 said | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 King | punct |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quiet | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 River | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 River | det |
| 9 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fisherman | det |
| 14 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 give | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Doom | case |
| 20 | Doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | King of the River obl; quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the fisherman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give in in a quote | infinitive | to Doom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to doom=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «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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