Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28
“Be at peace all of you,” he said, “for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the stranger away in the night.”
Who acts: master · What happens: be, say, have, drive away · To what, where: peace, whip, stranger · 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 (master), 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 peace | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 peace | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 peace | case |
| 4 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 peace | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 all | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peace | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 peace | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 hunger | case |
| 15 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obl |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 whip | det |
| 18 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drive | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drive | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drive | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 drive | aux |
| 23 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 has | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stranger | det |
| 25 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drive | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 drive | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drive | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | peace | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a whip | for hunger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drive away in a quote | future | master | the stranger | night | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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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