Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 19
His host continued: “I am indeed Tuan, the son of Starn, the son of Sera, who was brother to Partholon.”
Who acts: host, long pedigree, Tuan · What happens: continue, be · To what, where: Tuan, brother, Partholon · 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 (host, long pedigree, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 host | nmod:poss |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tuan | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tuan | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Tuan | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Tuan | cop |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 Tuan | advmod |
| 9 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tuan | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Starn | case |
| 14 | Starn | Starn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tuan | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sera | case |
| 19 | Sera | Sera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brother | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brother | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brother | cop |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tuan | appos |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Partholon | case |
| 25 | Partholon | Partholon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brother | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tuan | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Finnian's host | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a long pedigree = pedigree | Tuan | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | Tuan | brother | Partholon | 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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