Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11
“Stay with us, Chief,” Caelte begged.
Who acts: Caelte · What happens: stay, beg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caelte), 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 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Stay | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chief | punct |
| 6 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stay | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 9 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | with us; Chief vocative | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Caelte | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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