Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6
“We shall try this person’s power,” said Finnian.
Who acts: We, Finnian · What happens: try, say · To what, where: power · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, Finnian), 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 try | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 person | case |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 try | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | shall | We | this person's power | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Finnian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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