Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 51
Yet, now that the years have gone by, I think the fault lay with Goll and not with Fionn, and that the judgement given did not consider everything.
Who acts: years, I, fault, judgement · What happens: go, think, lay, give, not consider · To what, where: judgement, everything · 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 (years, I, fault, judgement), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 gone | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gone | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gone | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 by | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fault | det |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Goll | case |
| 17 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Fionn | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 Fionn | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Fionn | case |
| 21 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Goll | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 consider | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 consider | cc |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 consider | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 judgement | det |
| 26 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 consider | nsubj |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 judgement | acl |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 consider | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 consider | advmod |
| 30 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 think | conj |
| 31 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 consider | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | the years | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | present | the fault | with Goll and Fionn | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | the judgement not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not consider | past · do-support | the judgement | everything | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent everything=Attribute |
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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