Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 27
“In the Shi’ many men gave me their love, but I gave my love to no man of my country.”
Who acts: many men, Fionn, question, my · What happens: give, love · To what, where: love, Fionn, man
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many men, Fionn, question, 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 | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Shi | det |
| 4 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 Shi | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 love | nmod:poss |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | the Shi's many men | question's love | Fionn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient love=Theme | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | Fionn | my love | no man of my country | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Theme to man=Recipient | |||
| 3 | love in a quote | question | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling 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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