Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 11
“Why don’t you run, my pulse?” said the Carl earnestly; “why don’t you try to win the race?”
Who acts: you, Carl, my · What happens: not run, say, not try, win, pulse · To what, where: pulse, race · 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, Carl, my), 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 | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 n’t | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 n’t | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 run | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pulse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Carl | det |
| 14 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 14 Carl | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 try | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 try | punct |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 n’t | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 n’t | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 try | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 try | nsubj |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 win | mark |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 try | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 race | det |
| 26 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run in a quote | present | you | my pulse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pulse=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Carl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not try in a quote | present | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | win not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | pulse in a quote | my | nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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