Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1
“I think,” said Cairell Whiteskin, “that although judgement was given against Fionn, it was Fionn had the rights of it.”
Who acts: Cairell, judgement · What happens: think, say, give, be · To what, where: judgement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cairell, judgement), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Cairell | Cairell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | Whiteskin | Whiteskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cairell | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 judgement | det |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 judgement | case |
| 13 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 Fionn | case |
| 17 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | cop |
| 21 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rights | det |
| 24 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rights | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Cairell | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cairell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past · passive | that judgement | against Fionn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | judgement | have property | 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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