Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 28
“I have heard that the first-born were mindless,” said Finnian.
Who acts: Finnian · What happens: hear, bear, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Finnian), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 mindless | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mindless | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 born | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 first | punct |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 the | acl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mindless | cop |
| 11 | mindless | mindless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Finnian | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Finnian not said here | mindless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Finnian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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