Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 80
“I promise it and know it,” said Fionn, “you shall eat a Salmon of Knowledge yet.”
Who acts: Fionn, you · What happens: promise, know, say, eat · To what, where: promise, Salmon · 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 (Fionn, 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 | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Salmon | det |
| 18 | Salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eat | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Knowledge | case |
| 20 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Salmon | nmod |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 eat | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | Fionn | promise | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | Fionn not said here | promise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | shall | you | a Salmon of Knowledge | yet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=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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