Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 20
You shall dig up old bones stealthily at night, and chew them against famine.
Who acts: You · What happens: dig up, chew · To what, where: old bones, bones
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 dig | aux |
| 3 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dig | compound:prt |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bones | amod |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dig | obj |
| 7 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 3 dig | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dig | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chew | cc |
| 12 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dig | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 chew | obj |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 famine | case |
| 15 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | shall | You | old bones | night | stealthily property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | ||
| 2 | chew | infinitive | You not said here | bones = bone | against famine | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/30/20/