Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 33
“Until I have won the kingship of this land from all claimants, I am no match for the mate of the High King of Ireland,” he replied.
Who acts: Ireland · What happens: win, be, reply · To what, where: kingship, claimants, match · 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 (Ireland), 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 | _ | 18 match | punct |
| 2 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 won | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 won | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | aux |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 match | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingship | det |
| 7 | kingship | kingship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kingship | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 claimants | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 claimants | det |
| 13 | claimants | claimant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 won | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 match | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 match | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 match | det |
| 18 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 mate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mate | det |
| 21 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 match | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 King | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 24 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 King | amod |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mate | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Ireland | case |
| 27 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 match | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 match | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 replied | nsubj |
| 31 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | present · perfect | Ireland | the kingship of this land | all claimants | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kingship=Theme from claimant=Source | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Ireland | no match | for the mate of the High King of Ireland | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Ireland | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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