Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 35
“Nevertheless,” said Conn stubbornly, “I do not wish to banish my son; it is awkward and unnecessary.”
Who acts: Conn, presence · What happens: say, not wish, banish, be · To what, where: son · 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 (Conn, presence), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nevertheless | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nevertheless | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | stubbornly | stubbornly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 banish | mark |
| 15 | banish | banish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banish | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 awkward | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 awkward | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 awkward | cop |
| 21 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 unnecessary | cc |
| 23 | unnecessary | unnecessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 awkward | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 awkward | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Conn | nevertheless, stubbornly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | Conn | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | banish not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Conn not said here | my son | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | presence | awkward property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | presence not said here | tree rules |
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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