Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 35
It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
Who acts: It, seeing, dish · What happens: be, see, happen, not know, believe, not follow · 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: who acts (It, seeing, dish), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 possible | csubj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happening | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 happening | aux |
| 9 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 see | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happening | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 forward | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 forward | cop |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seeing | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeing | mark |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeing | mark |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 believing | csubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 believing | aux |
| 22 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 know | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 follow | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 follow | advmod |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 believing | ccomp |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 knowing | mark |
| 28 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 seeing | det |
| 29 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 knowing | csubj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 believing | cc |
| 31 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 seeing | conj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 knowing | aux |
| 33 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 follow | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not know | infinitive | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | forward property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | believe | present · progressive | seeing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | not follow | present · do-support | dish | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 10 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 11 | know | present · progressive | seeing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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