Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 20
“I did not know you lacked a wife,” said Becuma, but indeed she did.
Who acts: Becuma, you, wife · What happens: not know, lack, say, do · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma, you, wife), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lacked | nsubj |
| 7 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lacked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 did | cc |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 did | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Becuma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lack in a quote | past | you | a wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Becuma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past | wife | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «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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