Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 32
“I could answer it if I had All Knowledge, but not until then.
Who acts: weighty question · What happens: answer, have · To what, where: Salmon, Knowledge
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 (weighty question), 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 answer | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | advcl |
| 9 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Knowledge | det |
| 10 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 then | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 then | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 then | advmod |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 15 then | case |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 answer | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | could | a weighty question = question | Salmon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | a weighty question = question | all Knowledge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
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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