Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 40
“However that may be, master, I have given Fionn’s message, and here at my heel is the dog.
Who acts: that, messenger · What happens: be, give · To what, where: master, message, dog
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 (that, messenger), 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 | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 11 given | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 master | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 master | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 master | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 master | punct |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 However | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 However | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 given | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 dog | advcl |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 message | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Fionn | case |
| 14 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 here | cc |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 given | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 heel | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heel | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 here | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dog | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 dog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | may | that | master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · perfect | the messenger = messenger | Fionn's message | here | however property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the dog | tree rules |
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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