Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26
“I should finish the fight I began,” Goll continued, “for it was I who killed the two sisters of this valiant hag, and it is against me the feud lies.”
Who acts: captain, Goll, fight, feud · What happens: finish, begin, continue, be, kill, lie · To what, where: fight, two sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (captain, Goll, fight, feud), 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 finish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 finish | aux |
| 4 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fight | det |
| 6 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finish | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fight | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
| 11 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finish | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 I | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 I | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 I | cop |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 killed | nsubj |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 continued | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sisters | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sisters | nummod |
| 23 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 killed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hag | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 hag | det |
| 26 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hag | amod |
| 27 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sisters | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 me | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 me | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 me | cop |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finish | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 feud | det |
| 35 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lies | nsubj |
| 36 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 me | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish in a quote | should | the captain = captain | the fight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | past | the captain = captain | the fight not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | Goll | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | fight | for the captain = captain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | past | the captain = captain | the two sisters of this valiant hag | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | fight | against the captain = captain | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | lie in a quote | present | the feud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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