Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2
“He had eleven hundred killed,” said Cona’n amiably, “and you may call that the rights of it if you like.”
Who acts: Cairell, Cona’n, you, rights · What happens: have, kill, say, call, like · To what, where: eleven hundred · 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, Cona’n, you, rights), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hundred | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | amiably | amiably | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 call | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 call | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 like | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rights | det |
| 20 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 like | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rights | nmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 like | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 like | nsubj |
| 25 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Cairell | eleven hundred | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cona’n | amiably property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | may | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the rights of judgement | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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