Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 12
“I would wait twice as long for a poem,” said the inveterate bard.
Who acts: inveterate bard · What happens: wait, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inveterate bard), 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 wait | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 long | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 poem | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 poem | det |
| 10 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bard | det |
| 15 | inveterate | inveterate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bard | amod |
| 16 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | would | the inveterate bard = bard | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the inveterate bard | 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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