Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 42
“This son of Rona’n will not long be notable,” the stranger asserted.
Who acts: son, stranger · What happens: be, assert · 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 (son, stranger), 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 | _ | 10 notable | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 notable | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Rona’n | case |
| 5 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 notable | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 notable | amod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 notable | cop |
| 10 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asserted | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 notable | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 notable | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stranger | det |
| 14 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asserted | nsubj |
| 15 | asserted | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | this son of Rona’n | notable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assert | past | the stranger | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
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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