Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12
“I thought that my rent was the only one those people had to pay,” Fionn continued.
Who acts: I, rent, people, only one, Fionn, my · What happens: think, be, have, pay, continue, rent · To what, where: only one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rent, people, only one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1406): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 continued | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 one | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rent | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pay | mark |
| 15 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 continued | nsubj |
| 19 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | my rent | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | that people | the only one not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | to-infinitive | the only one not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | continue | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | rent in a quote | my | nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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