Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 26
“I swear that,” said Cael, “and I would swear anything to get home.”
Who acts: Cael · What happens: swear, say, get · To what, where: that, anything · 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 (Cael), 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 | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 swear | nsubj |
| 3 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 swear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swear | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 swear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swear | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 swear | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 swear | aux |
| 14 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 swear | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anything | acl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 swear | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | present | Cael | that | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swear in a quote | would | Cael | anything | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Cael not said here | anything not said here | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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