Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 32
We are not told if the King of Finntraigh said anything more, but we know that Fionn left his service soon afterwards.
Who acts: King, we, Fionn · What happens: not tell, say, know, leave, service · To what, where: We, anything, service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, we, Fionn), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Finntraigh | case |
| 9 | Finntraigh | Finntraigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | ccomp |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 anything | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 left | mark |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 service | nmod:poss |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 left | advmod |
| 23 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 left | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | present · passive | We | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past | the King of Finntraigh | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Fionn | King's service | afterwards, soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | |||
| 5 | service | King | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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