Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4
“I object to Fionn giving evidence,” said he.
Who acts: I, object · What happens: object, give, say · To what, where: Fionn, evidence · 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, object), 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 object | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 object | nsubj |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Fionn | case |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 object | nmod |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 object | acl |
| 7 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 giving | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 object | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 object | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other in a quote | I | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | gerund | object not said here | evidence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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