Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 70
“The past is hers,” he concluded, “but the future is ours, and we shall only demand that which is pertinent to the future.”
Who acts: past, woman, future, we · What happens: be, conclude, demand · To what, where: woman, ours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (past, woman, future, we), 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 | _ | 9 concluded | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 past | det |
| 3 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hers | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hers | cop |
| 5 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 concluded | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hers | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hers | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 concluded | nsubj |
| 9 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ours | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ours | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ours | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 future | det |
| 14 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ours | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ours | cop |
| 16 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 concluded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 demand | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 demand | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 demand | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 demand | aux |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 demand | advmod |
| 22 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 concluded | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 pertinent | mark |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 pertinent | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pertinent | cop |
| 26 | pertinent | pertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 demand | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 future | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 future | det |
| 29 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pertinent | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 concluded | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the past | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conclude | past | woman | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the future | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request in a quote | shall | we | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | to the future; pertinent property | 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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