Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 7

“Tell me of the beginning of time in Ireland, and of the bearing of Partholon, the son of Noah’s son.”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, begin · To what, where: Finnian, time · 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 (you), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 beginning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beginning	det
6	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beginning	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 time	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bearing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bearing	cc
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bearing	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bearing	det
15	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Partholon	case
17	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bearing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Partholon	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 son	case
22	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 son	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Noah	case
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		Finnian		of the beginning of time in Ireland	of the bearing of Partholon	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	begin in a quote			time in Ireland					nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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