Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 22
Iollan told his story then, and, he concluded, “I am certain that you have hidden the girl.”
Who acts: Iollan, you · What happens: tell, conclude, be, hide · To what, where: story, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan, 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 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 told | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 concluded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 concluded | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 concluded | nsubj |
| 10 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 certain | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 certain | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 certain | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 certain | cop |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 concluded | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hidden | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hidden | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hidden | aux |
| 19 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 certain | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hidden | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Iollan | Iollan's story | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | conclude | past | Iollan | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Iollan | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide in a quote | present · perfect | you | the girl | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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.
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