Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7
“He is reputed to be a wise and hardy man,” said his informant.
Who acts: informant · What happens: repute, be, say · To what, where: person, wise man · 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 (informant), 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 reputed | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reputed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reputed | aux:pass |
| 4 | reputed | repute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 man | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hardy | cc |
| 10 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wise | conj |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reputed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reputed | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reputed | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 informant | nmod:poss |
| 16 | informant | informant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repute in a quote | present · passive | person | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | a wise man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | person's informant | 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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