Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 12
Tuan replied obediently: “I am known as Tuan, son of Cairill, son of Muredac Red-neck, and these are the hereditary lands of my father.”
Who acts: Tuan, these · What happens: reply, know, be · To what, where: Tuan, hereditary lands · 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 (Tuan, these), 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 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | obediently | obediently | ADV | _ | 2 replied | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 known | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 known | aux:pass |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 replied | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Tuan | case |
| 10 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tuan | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Cairill | case |
| 14 | Cairill | Cairill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tuan | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Muredac | case |
| 18 | Muredac | Muredac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 19 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Muredac | flat |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 neck | punct |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Muredac | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lands | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lands | cc |
| 24 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 lands | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lands | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lands | det |
| 27 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lands | amod |
| 28 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 father | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lands | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 lands | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Tuan | obediently property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · passive | Tuan | as Tuan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as tuan=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | these | the hereditary lands | of my father | 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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