Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 23
“Now, dear heart, do you still claim tribute and lordship of Ireland?” said he.
Who acts: you, Carl · What happens: do, claim, say · To what, where: dear heart, tribute · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. 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), 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 heart | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dear | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 claim | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 claim | advmod |
| 10 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | ccomp |
| 11 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 claim | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lordship | cc |
| 13 | lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tribute | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ireland | case |
| 15 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lordship | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | dear heart | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | claim speech: other in a quote | present | you | tribute and lordship of Ireland | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tribute=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Carl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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