Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 16
“Nor do I,” roared Fergus; “get out of my sight.”
Who acts: man, my · What happens: do, roar, get out, sight · To what, where: Fergus, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, my), 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 roared | punct |
| 2 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 3 do | discourse |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 roared | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 7 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 roared | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 roared | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sight | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the man = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | roar | past | Fergus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | infinitive | my sight | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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