Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 12
“Go,” said Fionn to a hawk-eyed man, “go to the top of this hill and watch for the coming of the racers.”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: go, say, watch, come · To what, where: eyed man, top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eyed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hawk | punct |
| 11 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hill | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 hill | det |
| 21 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 watch | cc |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | conj |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 coming | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coming | det |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 watch | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 racers | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 racers | det |
| 29 | racers | racer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 coming | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | a eyed man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | the top of this hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | watch in a quote | infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | come in a quote | gerund | of the racers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of racer=Initial_Location |
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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