Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14
“I am not as well acquainted with Ulster genealogies as I should be, yet I know something of them.
Who acts: Tuan · What happens: not acquaint, know · To what, where: something
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), 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 | _ | 7 acquainted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 acquainted | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 acquainted | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 acquainted | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 7 acquainted | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 genealogies | case |
| 9 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 genealogies | compound |
| 10 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 acquainted | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 be | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 be | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 acquainted | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 acquainted | conj |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 know | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 something | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 acquainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not acquaint speech: other in a quote | present · passive | Tuan | with Ulster genealogies | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Tuan | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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