Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 15
“How did your tribute arise?”
Who acts: tribute · What happens: arise
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 (tribute), 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 | _ | 6 arise | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 arise | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arise | aux |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tribute | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arise | nsubj |
| 6 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 arise | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise in a quote | past · do-support | your tribute | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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