Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 21
“Different genealogies, indeed,” replied Tuan thoughtfully, “but they are my genealogies.”
Who acts: Different genealogies, respect · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: Tuan, 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 (Different genealogies, respect), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 genealogies | amod |
| 3 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 genealogies | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 genealogies | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 genealogies | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 genealogies | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 genealogies | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 genealogies | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 genealogies | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 genealogies | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 genealogies | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 genealogies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 genealogies | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 genealogies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Different genealogies | Tuan | thoughtfully property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | respect | my genealogies | 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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