Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 4
“I won’t build house or hut for the sake of passing one night here, for I hope never to see this place again.”
Who acts: Cael, sake · What happens: not build, pass, not hope, see · To what, where: house, place
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 (Cael, sake), 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 build | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 build | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 build | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 build | advmod |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 hut | cc |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sake | det |
| 11 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 passing | mark |
| 13 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 sake | acl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 night | nummod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passing | obj |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 passing | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hope | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 hope | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hope | nsubj |
| 20 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 build | conj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 hope | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hope | xcomp |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 see | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 build | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not build in a quote | future | Cael | house or hut | for the sake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for sake=Asset | |||
| 2 | pass in a quote | gerund | the sake not said here | here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | not hope in a quote | present | Cael | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Cael not said here | this place | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
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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