Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 36
“Give out your deed,” Fionn commanded.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: give out, command · To what, where: deed · 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 (Fionn), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 commanded | ccomp |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Give | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 deed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 commanded | nsubj |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give out in a quote | infinitive | Fionn not said here | your deed | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent deed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | command | past | Fionn | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=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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