Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 30
“By my hand,” said Cona’n, “we have never heard of a warrior, however great, but his peer was found in Ireland, and the funeral songs of all such have been chanted by the women of this land.”
Who acts: Cona’n, we, women · What happens: say, not hear, find, chant · To what, where: peer, Ireland, funeral songs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cona’n, we, women), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 heard | advmod |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 warrior | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 warrior | det |
| 17 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 19 | however | however | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heard | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 peer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Ireland | case |
| 28 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 chanted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 chanted | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 songs | det |
| 32 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 songs | compound |
| 33 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 chanted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 songs | nmod |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 songs | amod |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 chanted | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 chanted | aux:pass |
| 39 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 found | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 women | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 women | det |
| 42 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 chanted | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 land | case |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 land | det |
| 45 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 women | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cona’n | by my hand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | we | of a warrior | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of warrior=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past · passive | Cona’n's peer | Ireland | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | chant in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the women of this land | the funeral songs of all | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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