Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10
“I,” said Goll, “will trust to the evidence of Fergus True-Lips.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, trust, evidence · To what, where: evidence, Fergus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trust | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 trust | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 trust | aux |
| 10 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 evidence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evidence | det |
| 13 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trust | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Fergus | case |
| 15 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 evidence | nmod |
| 16 | True | True | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fergus | flat |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lips | punct |
| 18 | Lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Fergus | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | future | the evidence of Fergus and Lips | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to evidence=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | evidence in a quote | Fergus and Lips | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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