Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 20
“But,” said Finnian in bewilderment, “there is an error here, for you have recited two different genealogies.”
Who acts: Finnian, error, you · What happens: say, be, recite · To what, where: bewilderment, two different genealogies · 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 (Finnian, error, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bewilderment | case |
| 8 | bewilderment | bewilderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recited | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 error | det |
| 14 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 is | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recited | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 recited | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 recited | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recited | aux |
| 20 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 genealogies | nummod |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 genealogies | amod |
| 23 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recited | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Finnian | bewilderment | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in bewilderment=Manner | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a error | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recite in a quote | present · perfect | you | two different genealogies | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genealogy=Theme |
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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