Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 7
“Why do you live on the bank of a river?” was one of these questions.
Who acts: you · What happens: live, be · To what, where: bank, one · 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 (you), 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 live | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 live | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | csubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bank | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 questions | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 questions | det |
| 18 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present · do-support | you | the bank of a river | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | one | of this questions | 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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