Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood of Fionn, sentence 5
And, however ye deem my testimony of Fionn excessive, and, although ye hold my praising overstrained, nevertheless, and by the King that is above me, he was three times better than all I say.--Saint PATRICK.
Who acts: ye, that, Fionn, I · What happens: deem, hold, overstrain, be, say, testify · To what, where: testimony, praising · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, The Boyhood of Fionn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, that, Fionn, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 deem | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deem | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 deem | advmod |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 deem | nsubj |
| 5 | deem | deem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 testimony | nmod:poss |
| 7 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deem | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Fionn | case |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 testimony | nmod |
| 10 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deem | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hold | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hold | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hold | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 hold | mark |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 hold | nsubj |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 deem | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 praising | nmod:poss |
| 18 | praising | praising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | obj |
| 19 | overstrained | overstrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hold | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nevertheless | punct |
| 21 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 16 hold | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 better | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 better | cc |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 better | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 me | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 me | cop |
| 29 | above | above | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 King | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 me | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 better | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 better | cop |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 times | nummod |
| 35 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 better | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 deem | conj |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 all | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 better | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 say | nsubj |
| 40 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 all | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deem | punct |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 PATRICK | punct |
| 43 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 PATRICK | compound |
| 44 | PATRICK | PATRICK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 deem | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | infinitive | ye | my testimony of Fionn | Saint PATRICK obl; however property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent testimony=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hold | infinitive | ye | my praising | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | overstrain | participle | ye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | above me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Fionn | time | by the King; than all; good property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | testify | Fionn | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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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