Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 52
“We must wait for the salmon,” said Fionn in a rage of resignation.
Who acts: We, Fionn, resignation · What happens: wait, say, rage · To what, where: rage · 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 (We, Fionn, resignation), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 salmon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 salmon | det |
| 7 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rage | det |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 resignation | case |
| 16 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rage | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | must | We | for the salmon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | a rage of resignation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rage | resignation | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: of=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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