Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 34
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought.
What happens: say, be, seek · To what, where: dish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | dep |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowledge | punct |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 higher | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 higher | cop |
| 9 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 said | parataxis |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 magic | case |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 higher | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 more | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 more | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 higher | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sought | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sought | aux:pass |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 more | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | may · passive | dish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | than magic; high property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive · passive | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V» |
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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