Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 34
“I am no party to this untimely journey,” he said angrily.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, say · To what, where: party · 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), 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 party | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 party | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 party | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 party | det |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 journey | det |
| 8 | untimely | untimely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 journey | amod |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 party | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 party | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | king | no party | to this untimely journey | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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