Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 9
“Tell on, my beloved,” said Finnian, “you shall rest in God, dear heart.”
Who acts: Finnian, you · What happens: tell on, say, rest · To what, where: dear heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, you), 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 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 Tell | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beloved | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 rest | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rest | aux |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heart | punct |
| 19 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heart | amod |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell on speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Finnian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rest in a quote | shall | you | dear heart | in God | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in god=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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