Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10
“Keep your filth, beggarman,” the other replied, “for I would rather be hanged than gnaw on a bone that you have browsed.”
Who acts: you, filth · What happens: keep, reply, hange, gnaw, browse · To what, where: filth, meaty bone, bone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, filth), 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 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 filth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | filth | filth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beggarman | punct |
| 6 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filth | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Keep | obj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Keep | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gnaw | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 gnaw | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 hanged | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hanged | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hanged | aux |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 hanged | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hanged | aux:pass |
| 19 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 gnaw | advcl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 hanged | obl |
| 21 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bone | det |
| 24 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gnaw | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 browsed | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 browsed | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 browsed | aux |
| 28 | browsed | browse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 bone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your filth and beggarman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | your filth and beggarman not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hange in a quote | would · passive | a meaty bone = bone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gnaw in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | on a bone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on bone=Patient | ||||
| 5 | browse in a quote | present · perfect | you | a bone | 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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