Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 40
“A third of all you earn and a seat at your council.”
Who acts: third · What happens: earn · To what, where: council
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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 | _ | 7 earn | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earn | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 third | nmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 earn | nsubj |
| 7 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seat | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seat | det |
| 10 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earn | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 council | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 council | nmod:poss |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 earn | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn in a quote | present | a third of all | your council | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at council=Asset |
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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