Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 39
“I am Fionn, the son of Uail, the son of Baiscne,” said the youth.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Fionn, youth · 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 (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 Fionn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Fionn | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Fionn | cop |
| 4 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fionn | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Uail | case |
| 9 | Uail | Uail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fionn | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Baiscne | case |
| 14 | Baiscne | Baiscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fionn | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fionn | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Fionn | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=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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