Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 37
But Fionn would see and know, or he would under-stand a decent ratio of his visions.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: see, know, stand · To what, where: decent ratio
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stand | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 stand | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stand | aux |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 stand | advcl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 under | punct |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ratio | det |
| 15 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ratio | amod |
| 16 | ratio | ratio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stand | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 visions | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 visions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ratio | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | would | Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know | infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | would | Fionn | a decent ratio of Fionn's visions | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ratio=Stimulus |
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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