Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 78
“You shall eat a Salmon of Knowledge too,” Fionn assured him.
Who acts: You, Fionn · What happens: eat, assure · To what, where: Salmon, knowledge · 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 (You, Fionn), 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 eat | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 assured | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Salmon | det |
| 6 | Salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Knowledge | case |
| 8 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Salmon | nmod |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 assured | nsubj |
| 13 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 assured | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | shall | You | a Salmon of Knowledge | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | assure | past | Fionn | knowledge | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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