Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 3
“Bring the beast here,” said his master, “for whoever else is dissatisfied Fionn must be satisfied.”
Who acts: master, whoever · What happens: bring, say, be · To what, where: beast · 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 (master, whoever), 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Bring | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfied | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfied | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 whoever | case |
| 14 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 satisfied | nsubj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 whoever | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dissatisfied | cop |
| 17 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fionn | amod |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 whoever | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 satisfied | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 satisfied | cop |
| 21 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the beast | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | servant's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | dissatisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | whoever | satisfied property | 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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