Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 11
“Oisi’n, my heart, kill me this honourable hag.”
Who acts: Oisi’n · What happens: kill · To what, where: Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oisi’n), 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 | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 2 | Oisi’n | oisi'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oisi’n | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oisi’n | punct |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hag | det |
| 10 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hag | amod |
| 11 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | infinitive | Oisi’n | Fionn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer hag=Result |
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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