Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 9
“If you object to the testimony of the chief person present, in what way are we to obtain evidence?” the king demanded.
Who acts: you, object, king, chief person present · What happens: object, be, demand, testify · 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, object, king, chief person present), 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 | _ | 4 object | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 object | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 object | nsubj |
| 4 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obtain | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 testimony | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 testimony | det |
| 7 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 object | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 present | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 present | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 present | amod |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 present | compound |
| 12 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 testimony | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 object | appos |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 what | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 obtain | cop |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 obtain | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 obtain | mark |
| 20 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 demanded | parataxis |
| 21 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obtain | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 obtain | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 obtain | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 demanded | nsubj |
| 26 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | you | to the testimony of the chief person present | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | object | obtain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | the king | vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | testify in a quote | the chief person present | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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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