Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 49
“He is not married,” said Saeve, “and you have small control over him.”
Who acts: Saeve, you · What happens: not marry, say, have · To what, where: Man, small control · 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 (Saeve, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 married | advmod |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 control | amod |
| 16 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 control | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry in a quote | present · passive | Man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Saeve | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | small control | over Man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=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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