Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 10
A man of sweet deeds and sweet ways.”
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 deeds | case |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deeds | amod |
| 5 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ways | cc |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ways | amod |
| 8 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deeds | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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