Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29
“By my hand,” the man cried, “there is no person in Ireland but myself can win that race.
Who acts: man, person · What happens: cry, be, win · To what, where: race · 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, person), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 person | nmod |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 win | cc |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 win | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 win | aux |
| 21 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 race | det |
| 23 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 win | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the man | by my hand | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | no person in Ireland | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win in a quote | can | the man = man | that race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
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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