Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14
But no person could surmise anything about it beyond that it was a vessel well equipped for war.
Who acts: person, ship · What happens: surmise, be, equip · To what, where: anything, vessel
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, ship), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 surmise | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surmise | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 surmise | aux |
| 5 | surmise | surmise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 surmise | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nmod |
| 9 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 14 vessel | case |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 vessel | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 vessel | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vessel | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vessel | det |
| 14 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surmise | obl |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 equipped | advmod |
| 16 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 vessel | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 war | case |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 equipped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surmise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surmise | could | no person | anything | about ship | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | ship | beyond a vessel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | equip | participle | a vessel not said here | for war; well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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