Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 37
“The story is not ended,” said that glum, spike-chinned cleric.
Who acts: story · What happens: not be, say, chin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | _ | 6 ended | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ended | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 ended | advmod |
| 6 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ended | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ended | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 glum | mark |
| 11 | glum | glum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cleric | punct |
| 13 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chinned | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 spike | punct |
| 15 | chinned | chin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cleric | amod |
| 16 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glum | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | the story | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | chin | participle | 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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