Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16
“He said I was the Berry of the Mountain, the Star of Knowledge, and the Blossom of the Raspberry.”
Who acts: Shi · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Berry · 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 (Shi), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Berry | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Berry | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Berry | det |
| 7 | Berry | Berry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mountain | det |
| 10 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Berry | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Star | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Star | det |
| 13 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Berry | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Knowledge | case |
| 15 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Star | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Blossom | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Blossom | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Blossom | det |
| 19 | Blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Berry | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Raspberry | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Raspberry | det |
| 22 | Raspberry | Raspberry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Blossom | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Berry | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Shi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Shi | the Berry and the Star of Knowledge and the Blossom of the Raspberry | of the Mountain | tree rules |
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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