Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 35
“All names are names,” Fionn responded, “and that also is a name.”
Who acts: names, that · What happens: be, respond · To what, where: names, name · 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 (names, that), 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 names | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 names | det |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 names | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 names | cop |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 responded | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 names | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 names | punct |
| 8 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | nsubj |
| 9 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 name | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 name | nsubj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 name | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | all names | names | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | names | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | a name | tree rules |
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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