Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6
“No, no,” he said, “the past has nothing more of interest for me, and I do not wish anything to come between my soul and its instruction; continue to teach me, dear friend and saintly father.”
Who acts: Tuan, past · What happens: say, have, not wish, come, continue, teach · To what, where: nothing, anything, soul, Tuan · 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 (Tuan, past), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 past | det |
| 12 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 nothing | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 interest | case |
| 17 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 interest | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wish | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wish | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wish | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 wish | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 wish | advmod |
| 25 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 has | conj |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 wish | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wish | xcomp |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 31 soul | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 soul | nmod:poss |
| 31 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 instruction | cc |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 instruction | nmod:poss |
| 34 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 soul | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 continue | punct |
| 36 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 teach | mark |
| 38 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 continue | xcomp |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 teach | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 friend | punct |
| 41 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 friend | amod |
| 42 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 teach | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 father | cc |
| 44 | saintly | saintly | ADV | _ | 45 father | advmod |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 friend | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tuan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the past | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | Tuan | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Tuan not said here | my soul and past's instruction | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between soul=Location | ||||
| 5 | continue in a quote | infinitive | Tuan not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | teach speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Tuan not said here | Tuan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | instruct in a quote | past | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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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