Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 25

“A man of knowledge foretold that I should catch the Salmon of Knowledge in the Boyne Water.”

Who acts: man, Finegas · What happens: foretell, catch · To what, where: Salmon, Boyne Water

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 (man, Finegas), 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	_	6 foretold	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foretold	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 knowledge	case
5	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
6	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 catch	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 catch	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	aux
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 foretold	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Salmon	det
12	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Knowledge	case
14	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Salmon	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 Water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Water	det
17	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Water	compound
18	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 foretold	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 foretold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foretell in a quote	participle	a man of knowledge						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	catch in a quote	should	Finegas	the Salmon of Knowledge		the Boyne Water			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme

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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