Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 40
“I hold that clann-Morna were attacked first, and that they are to be free from payment of damages.”
Who acts: judgement, Flahri · What happens: hold, attack, be, pay · To what, where: clann Morna, payment, damages · 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 (judgement, Flahri), 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 hold | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Morna | det |
| 5 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Morna | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 clann | punct |
| 7 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 attacked | aux:pass |
| 9 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hold | ccomp |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 attacked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 free | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 free | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 free | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | cop |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hold | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 payment | case |
| 20 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 damages | case |
| 22 | damages | damage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 payment | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | present | your judgement = judgement | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | attack in a quote | past · passive | that clann Morna | first property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Flahri | payment of damages | free property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pay in a quote | damages | nom payment «possession 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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