Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 55
“I thank the gods,” said Cona’n, “for the chance of killing yourself, Oscar.”
Who acts: Cona’n, chance · What happens: thank, say, kill · To what, where: gods, yourself · 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 (Cona’n, chance), 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 thank | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chance | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 chance | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 chance | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chance | det |
| 14 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Cona’n | appos |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 killing | mark |
| 16 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 chance | acl |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 killing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oscar | punct |
| 19 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cona’n | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Cona’n and Oscar = cona'n | the gods | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cona’n and Oscar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | gerund | the chance not said here | yourself | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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