Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 18
“But they look other things,” Uct Dealv insisted.
Who acts: Iollan, Uct · What happens: look, insist · To what, where: other things · 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 (Iollan, Uct), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 look | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 insisted | ccomp |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 9 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 insisted | nsubj |
| 10 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Uct | flat |
| 11 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Iollan | other things | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | Uct | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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