Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15
“That is true,” said Cairell, “and a man must stick by a judgement.
Who acts: That, Cairell, man · What happens: be, say, stick · 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 (That, Cairell, man), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Cairell | Cairell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stick | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stick | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stick | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stick | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stick | aux |
| 15 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 judgement | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 judgement | det |
| 18 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stick | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cairell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | must | a man | by a judgement | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by judgement=Destination |
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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