Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 17
“She cried on us, ‘Let me go to meet my husband, the father of the child that is not born.’”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: cry, let, go, meet, not bear · To what, where: Fionn, husband, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. 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 | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 8 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 husband | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 father | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 born | advmod |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 child | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Fionn | on us | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | my husband | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | not bear in a quote | present · passive | the child | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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