Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 27
“By my hand,” cried Uct Dealv, “I will come in with this dog, or your master shall answer for it to Fionn.”
Who acts: Uct, master · What happens: cry, come in, answer · To what, where: Fionn · 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 (Uct, 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Uct | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 dog | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 answer | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 answer | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 master | nmod:poss |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 answer | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 answer | aux |
| 24 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 answer | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Fionn | case |
| 28 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 answer | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Uct | by my hand | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | come in in a quote | future | Uct | with this dog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | shall | your master | Fionn | for hand | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to fionn=Co-Agent |
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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