Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 35
“You have not considered,” the king replied, “that a soldier owes obedience to his captain, and that, given the time and the place, Fionn was the captain and Goll was only a simple soldier.”
Who acts: You, king, soldier, Fionn, captain · What happens: not consider, reply, owe, give, be · To what, where: obedience, captain, that, simple soldier · 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 (You, king, soldier, Fionn), 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 considered | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 considered | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 considered | advmod |
| 5 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 considered | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 considered | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 owes | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 owes | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 owes | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owes | nsubj |
| 16 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owes | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 captain | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 captain | nmod:poss |
| 20 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owes | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 given | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 given | cc |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 given | punct |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 owes | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 given | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 place | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 captain | punct |
| 32 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 captain | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 captain | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 captain | det |
| 35 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 soldier | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Goll | cc |
| 37 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 captain | conj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 soldier | cop |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 soldier | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 soldier | det |
| 41 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 soldier | amod |
| 42 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owes | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not consider in a quote | present · perfect | You | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | owe in a quote | present | a soldier | obedience | to soldier's captain goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent obedience=Theme to captain=Goal | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | participle · passive | that | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | Fionn | the captain and Goll | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | the captain and Goll | a simple soldier | tree rules |
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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