Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17
One of them has rather a way with him as a swordsman.”
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 way | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | aux |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 swordsman | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 swordsman | det |
| 12 | swordsman | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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