Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
“A Sunday journey,” he went on, “is a notorious bad journey.
Who acts: Dermod · What happens: go on, be · To what, where: Sunday journey, notorious bad journey
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 (Dermod), 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 | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 journey | det |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 journey | compound |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 journey | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 14 | notorious | notorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | amod |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | amod |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Dermod | a Sunday journey | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a notorious bad journey | 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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