Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23
“I am now known as Tuan mac Cairill,” the other replied, “but in the days of old I was known as Tuan mac Starn, mac Sera.”
What happens: know, reply · To what, where: I, other · 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: 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 known | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 mac | case |
| 7 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | compound |
| 8 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | Cairill | Cairill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mac | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mac | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 days | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 days | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 days | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 days | det |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 replied | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 old | case |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 days | amod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 known | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 known | aux:pass |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 old | acl:relcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Starn | case |
| 27 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mac | compound |
| 28 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Starn | compound |
| 29 | Starn | Starn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 known | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mac | punct |
| 31 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Starn | appos |
| 32 | Sera | Sera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 mac | flat |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · passive | I | now | as Tuan mac | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the other | day | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past · passive | I | as mac Starn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as starn=Attribute |
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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