Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 31
“By my hand,” said Fionn in mortal distress, “I marvel who that man can be!”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say, marvel, be · To what, where: mortal distress · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fionn), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distress | case |
| 10 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 distress | amod |
| 11 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marvel | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 marvel | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 marvel | nsubj |
| 15 | marvel | marvel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 be | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 be | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 marvel | ccomp |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Fionn | mortal distress | by my hand | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in distress=Manner | |||
| 2 | marvel in a quote | present | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | can in a quote | can | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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