Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17

“Fionn is alone, my treasures.”

Who acts: Fionn, my · What happens: be, treasure

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, my), 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 alone	punct
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 alone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alone	cop
4	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 treasures	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 treasures	nmod:poss
7	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 alone	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Fionn					my treasures obl; alone property	tree rules
2	treasure in a quote		my						nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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