Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8
Still, the hound that can wait will catch a hare at last, and even Manana’nn sleeps.
Who acts: hound, Manana’nn · What happens: wait, catch, sleep · To what, where: hare, last
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hound, Manana’nn), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 9 catch | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hound | det |
| 4 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 catch | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wait | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | aux |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hound | acl:relcl |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 catch | aux |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 catch | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 catch | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sleeps | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sleeps | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 sleeps | advmod |
| 17 | Manana’nn | Manana'nn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sleeps | nsubj |
| 18 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 catch | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | can | the hound | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch | future | the hound | a hare | last | still | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hare=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 3 | sleep | present | Manana’nn | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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