Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 31
“I am ruler of the Shi’ of Rath Cruachan,” he said.
Who acts: ruler · What happens: be, say · To what, where: ruler · 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 (ruler), 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 ruler | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ruler | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ruler | cop |
| 4 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ’ | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ’ | det |
| 7 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ’ | compound |
| 8 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruler | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rath | case |
| 10 | Rath | Rath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ’ | nmod |
| 11 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rath | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruler | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruler | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ruler | ruler | of the Shi ’ of Rath | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | ruler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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