Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 51
“Except the High King and the kings I have authority in this land.”
Who acts: you, kings · What happens: except, have · To what, where: High King, authority, land
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 (you, kings), 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 Except | punct |
| 2 | Except | except | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Except | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kings | det |
| 8 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Except | conj |
| 11 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Except | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Except | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the High King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the kings | authority | this land | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=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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