Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 51
“Your name is not Deimne,” said the mild man, “your name is Fionn.”
Who acts: name, Deimne, Your · What happens: not be, say, be, name · To what, where: Deimne, mild man, Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Deimne, Your), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Deimne | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Deimne | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Deimne | advmod |
| 6 | Deimne | Deimne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Deimne | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Deimne | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fionn | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fionn | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Fionn | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Fionn | cop |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | Your name | Deimne | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Deimne | the mild man and Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your name | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | Your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name in a quote | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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