Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 22
“Then,” said Fionn, “I no longer know where to turn, or how to protect the honour of Ireland.”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say, know, turn, protect, honour · To what, where: honour, Ireland · 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 turn | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 turn | mark |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 protect | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 protect | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 protect | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 protect | mark |
| 20 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 honour | det |
| 22 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protect | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ireland | case |
| 24 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 honour | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Fionn | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | protect in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | the honour of Ireland | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | honour in a quote | Ireland | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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