Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16
“Mine is a long pedigree,” Tuan murmured.
Who acts: long pedigree · What happens: be, murmur · To what, where: long pedigree · 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 (long pedigree), 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 | _ | 6 pedigree | punct |
| 2 | Mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pedigree | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pedigree | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pedigree | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pedigree | amod |
| 6 | pedigree | pedigree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 murmured | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pedigree | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pedigree | punct |
| 9 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 murmured | nsubj |
| 10 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a long pedigree = pedigree | a long pedigree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | a long pedigree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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