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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

ccpunctadvmodnsubjnmod:possobjcasenmodconjpunctccpunctmarknsubjconjnmod:possobjxcomppunctadvmodpunctcccasedetoblnsubjcopcaseconjpunctnsubjcopnummodobl:unmarkedconjcaseoblnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctcompoundoblpunctrootAndCCONJ,PUNCThoweverADVyePRONdeemVERBmyPRONtestimonyNOUNofADPFionnPROPNexcessiveADJ,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTalthoughSCONJyePRONholdVERBmyPRONpraisingNOUNoverstrainedVERB,PUNCTneverthelessADV,PUNCTandCCONJbyADPtheDETKingNOUNthatPRONisAUXaboveADPmePRON,PUNCThePRONwasAUXthreeNUMtimesNOUNbetterADJthanADPallDETIPRONsayVERB.PUNCT--PUNCTSaintPROPNPATRICKPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 deemcc
2,,PUNCT_5 deempunct
3howeverhoweverADV_5 deemadvmod
4yeyePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch5 deemnsubj
5deemdeemVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 testimonynmod:poss
7testimonytestimonyNOUNNumber=Sing5 deemobj
8ofofADP_9 Fionncase
9FionnFionnPROPNNumber=Sing7 testimonynmod
10excessiveexcessiveADJDegree=Pos5 deemconj
11,,PUNCT_16 holdpunct
12andandCCONJ_16 holdcc
13,,PUNCT_16 holdpunct
14althoughalthoughSCONJ_16 holdmark
15yeyePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch16 holdnsubj
16holdholdVERBVerbForm=Inf5 deemconj
17mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 praisingnmod:poss
18praisingpraisingNOUNNumber=Sing16 holdobj
19overstrainedoverstrainVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 holdxcomp
20,,PUNCT_21 neverthelesspunct
21neverthelessneverthelessADV_16 holdadvmod
22,,PUNCT_36 betterpunct
23andandCCONJ_36 bettercc
24bybyADP_26 Kingcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Kingdet
26KingkingNOUNNumber=Sing36 betterobl
27thatthatPRONPronType=Rel30 mensubj
28isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 mecop
29aboveaboveADP_30 mecase
30meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 Kingconj
31,,PUNCT_30 mepunct
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 betternsubj
33wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 bettercop
34threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card35 timesnummod
35timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur36 betterobl:unmarked
36bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp5 deemconj
37thanthanADP_38 allcase
38allallDETPronType=Tot36 betterobl
39IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs40 saynsubj
40saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 allacl:relcl
41..PUNCT_5 deempunct
42----PUNCT_44 PATRICKpunct
43SaintSaintPROPNNumber=Sing44 PATRICKcompound
44PATRICKPATRICKPROPNNumber=Sing5 deemobl
45..PUNCT_5 deempunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1deeminfinitiveyemy testimony of FionnSaint PATRICK obl; however propertyvn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent testimony=Attribute
2holdinfinitiveyemy praisingnevertheless propertytree rules
3overstrainparticipleye not said heretree rules
4ispresentthatabove metree rules
5ispastFionntimeby the King; than all; good propertytree rules
6say speech: assertpresentIvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7testifyFionnnom 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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