Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 15
“Is he the champion he makes himself out to be?”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, make out · To what, where: champion, Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. 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 | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 champion | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 champion | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 champion | det |
| 5 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | csubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 makes | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Fionn | the champion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make out in a quote | present | Fionn | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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