Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7
“I will do that,” Finnian replied, “but I must first meditate deeply on you, and must know you well.
Who acts: Finnian · What happens: do, reply, meditate, know · To what, where: that, you · 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), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meditate | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 meditate | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 meditate | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 meditate | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 meditate | aux |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 meditate | advmod |
| 16 | meditate | meditate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 16 meditate | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 meditate | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 meditate | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 know | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | Finnian | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Finnian | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meditate in a quote | must | Finnian | on you; deeply, first property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on you=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | must | Finnian not said here | you | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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