Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 15
“It is truly not an hour for engagements,” Dermod insisted, “for not a bird of the birds has left his tree; and,” he continued maliciously, “the light is such that you could not see an engagement even if you met one.”
Who acts: mind, Dermod, light, you · What happens: not be, insist, leave, continue, be, not see · To what, where: hour, tree, engagement, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, Dermod, light, you), 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 hour | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hour | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hour | cop |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 hour | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hour | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 insisted | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 engagements | case |
| 9 | engagements | engagement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hour | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 12 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 insisted | nsubj |
| 13 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bird | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 birds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 birds | det |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bird | nmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 insisted | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tree | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 continued | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 continued | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 and | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 and | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 continued | nsubj |
| 32 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 insisted | parataxis |
| 33 | maliciously | maliciously | ADV | _ | 32 continued | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 such | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 such | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 light | det |
| 37 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 such | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 such | cop |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 32 continued | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 see | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 see | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 see | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 see | advmod |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 such | advcl |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 engagement | det |
| 46 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 see | obj |
| 47 | even | even | ADV | _ | 50 met | advmod |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 met | mark |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 met | nsubj |
| 50 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 see | advcl |
| 51 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 met | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 insisted | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | mind | a hour | for engagements; truly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | Dermod | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | Dermod's tree | for a bird of the birds | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Theme for bird=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | Dermod | maliciously property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the light | such property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not see in a quote | could | you | a engagement | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer engagement=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-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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