Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 53
“Do you mean that I am the man you seek?” said Fionn.
Who acts: you, Fionn · What happens: mean, be, seek, say · To what, where: man · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 man | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seek | nsubj |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Fionn | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | you | the man not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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