Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10
“It is to Fergus I shall bring you,” cried Uct Dealv.
Who acts: many, Fergus, Uct · What happens: be, bring, cry · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Fergus, 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 | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Fergus | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fergus | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Fergus | case |
| 5 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Uct | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | many | to Fergus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | shall | Fergus | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Uct | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: 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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