Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 16
“No person can get more than that, for a man’s readiness is his limit.”
Who acts: person, readiness · What happens: get, be · To what, where: more
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 (person, readiness), 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 limit | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 limit | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 readiness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 limit | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 limit | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 limit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | can | no person | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a man's readiness | for person's limit | tree rules |
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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