Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 23
“And moreover,” he continued, “a Sunday journey brings bad luck.”
Who acts: king, Sunday journey · What happens: continue, bring · To what, where: bad luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Sunday journey), 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 | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 moreover | cc |
| 3 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 7 continued | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moreover | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 moreover | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brings | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brings | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 11 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | compound |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | nsubj |
| 13 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 continued | ccomp |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 brings | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | king | moreover property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present | a Sunday journey | bad luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
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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