Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 7
“A pious, a saintly man,” the king interrupted, “and one who does not countenance transgressions of the Sunday.”
Who acts: pious man, one, Sunday · What happens: interrupt, not countenance, transgress · To what, where: transgressions · 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 (pious man, one, Sunday), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 3 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | saintly | saintly | ADV | _ | 7 man | advmod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interrupted | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interrupted | nsubj |
| 12 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 countenance | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 countenance | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 countenance | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 countenance | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 countenance | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 countenance | advmod |
| 20 | countenance | countenance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 interrupted | ccomp |
| 21 | transgressions | transgression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 countenance | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sunday | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sunday | det |
| 24 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 transgressions | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 countenance | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 countenance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | a pious man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not countenance in a quote | present · do-support | one | transgressions of the Sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | transgress in a quote | the Sunday | nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=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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