Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 40

“It is spoken like a hero,” he admitted after a moment, “and if you cannot be matched on those terms it will not be from a dearth of applicants.”

Who acts: Fionn, breath · What happens: speak, admit, not match, not be · To what, where: breath, you, terms, dearth · 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, breath), 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 spoken	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux:pass
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 admitted	advcl
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 hero	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 admitted	nsubj
11	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 admitted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 matched	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 matched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 matched	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 matched	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 matched	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 matched	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 matched	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 matched	aux:pass
23	matched	match	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 admitted	ccomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 terms	case
25	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 terms	det
26	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 matched	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dearth	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 dearth	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 dearth	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 dearth	cop
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 dearth	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dearth	det
33	dearth	dearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 terms	acl:relcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 applicants	case
35	applicants	applicant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dearth	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 dearth	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 matched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	present · passive		breath			like a hero	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	past	Fionn			moment		vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not match a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can · passive		you	that terms			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	not is in a quote	future	breath	that terms not said here	a dearth		of applicants	tree rules

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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