Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 4
“There is no such place in Ireland,” said Caelte, “but in the Shi’ there is such a place.”
Who acts: such place, Caelte · What happens: be, say · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such place, 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 place | det |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ireland | case |
| 8 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 is | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Shi | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Shi | det |
| 18 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 Shi | case |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 place | cop |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 place | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no such place in Ireland | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Caelte | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | such place | tree rules |
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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