Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 10
And Uct Dealv would reply: “Yes, that is my mortal, my lover, my pulse, and my one treasure.”
Who acts: Uct, that, my · What happens: reply, be, pulse, treasure · To what, where: one treasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uct, that, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 reply | cc |
| 2 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reply | nsubj |
| 3 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uct | flat |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | aux |
| 5 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 mortal | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mortal | punct |
| 8 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 mortal | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yes | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mortal | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mortal | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mortal | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reply | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lover | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lover | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mortal | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pulse | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pulse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lover | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 treasure | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 treasure | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 treasure | nummod |
| 24 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reply | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | would | Uct | my one treasure | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | mortal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pulse in a quote | my | nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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