Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 24
“I am myself,” the Carl gurgled through a mouthful of blackberries, “and as I am myself, how can it be myself?
Who acts: Carl, dog · What happens: be, gurgle · To what, where: Carl, mouthful
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 (Carl, dog), 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 myself | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 myself | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myself | cop |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 myself | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 myself | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Carl | det |
| 8 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 myself | conj |
| 9 | gurgled | gurgle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Carl | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 mouthful | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouthful | det |
| 12 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gurgled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 blackberries | case |
| 14 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mouthful | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 myself | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 myself | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 myself | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 myself | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 myself | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 myself | cop |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 myself | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 myself | punct |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 myself | advmod |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 myself | aux |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 myself | nsubj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 myself | cop |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 myself | conj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 myself | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Carl = carl | the Carl = carl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gurgle | participle | the Carl not said here | a mouthful of blackberries | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mouthful=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the Carl = carl | the Carl = carl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | can | dog | the Carl = carl | 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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