Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 26
“Do not look any further for the rusty-kneed, slow-trotting son of Rona’n,” he continued, “but ask me to run your race, and, by this hand, I will be first at the post.”
Who acts: man, your · What happens: not look, knee, trot, continue, ask, run · To what, where: son, man, race, post · 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 (man, your), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 continued | ccomp |
| 5 | any | any | ADV | _ | 6 further | advmod |
| 6 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 look | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 kneed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kneed | det |
| 9 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kneed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rusty | punct |
| 11 | kneed | knee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 look | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trotting | punct |
| 13 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trotting | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 slow | punct |
| 15 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kneed | advcl |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trotting | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Rona’n | case |
| 18 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 continued | nsubj |
| 22 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 ask | cc |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 continued | ccomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 ask | iobj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 run | mark |
| 29 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ask | xcomp |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 race | nmod:poss |
| 31 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 run | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 first | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 first | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 and | punct |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 hand | det |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 first | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hand | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 first | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 first | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 first | cop |
| 42 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 continued | conj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 post | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 post | det |
| 45 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 first | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 continued | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look in a quote | infinitive · do-support | man not said here | far property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | knee in a quote | participle | man not said here | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | trot in a quote | gerund | man not said here | son of Rona’n | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Agent | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | the man = man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | run not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | your race | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | future | the man = man | the post | by this hand; first property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | race in a quote | your | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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