Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 42
“You remember my spear with the thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket?”
Who acts: You · What happens: remember · To what, where: spear, socket
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 (You), 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 | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rivets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rivets | det |
| 8 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rivets | nummod |
| 9 | rivets | rivet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 11 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gold | amod |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rivets | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 socket | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 socket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | socket | socket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | present | You | my spear | gold's socket | with the thirty rivets of Arabian gold | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
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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