Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1
There are people who do not like dogs a bit--they are usually women--but in this story there is a man who did not like dogs.
Who acts: people, story, man · What happens: be, not like · To what, where: dogs, women, story
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, story, man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 like | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 like | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 women | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 women | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 women | cop |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 women | advmod |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 like | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 like | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 like | obl |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 story | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 like | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 like | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 like | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 like | advmod |
| 28 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 are | parataxis |
| 29 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 like | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | people | dogs | a bit obl:unmarked | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | people | women | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | present | this story not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not like | past · do-support | a man | dogs | this story | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=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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