Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 53

“Even if I have not eaten the Salmon of Knowledge I have some small science of my own.”

Who acts: boy, Salmon · What happens: not eat, have · To what, where: small science

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 (boy, Salmon), 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	_	7 eaten	punct
2	Even	even	ADV	_	7 eaten	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 eaten	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eaten	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eaten	advmod
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Salmon	det
9	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 have	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Knowledge	case
11	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Salmon	nmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	parataxis
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 science	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 science	amod
16	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 own	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 science	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat in a quote	present · perfect	the boy = boy						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	present	the Salmon of Knowledge	some small science of my own					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=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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