Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 29
“There is a gentleman,” he murmured, “for whom no seat has been found.”
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: be, murmur, find · To what, where: seat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 murmured | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gentleman | det |
| 5 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 9 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 murmured | obl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 seat | det |
| 15 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 found | aux:pass |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 murmured | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a gentleman | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | gentleman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for whom=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no seat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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