Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 5
“It bore your shape,” replied Gariv Cronan.
Who acts: master, Gariv · What happens: bear, reply · To what, where: shape · 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 (master, Gariv), 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 bore | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bore | nsubj |
| 3 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shape | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bore | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bore | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bore | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Gariv | Gariv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | Cronan | Cronan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gariv | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past | master | your shape | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Gariv | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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