Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 10
“As I will not banish myself, I suppose my father will do it, but I do not know why he should.”
Who acts: move, father · What happens: not banish, suppose, do, not know · To what, where: move, banishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (move, father), 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 | _ | 6 banish | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 banish | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 banish | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 banish | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 banish | advmod |
| 6 | banish | banish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 banish | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 suppose | nsubj |
| 10 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 banish | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 suppose | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 suppose | advcl |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 know | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 should | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 banish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 banish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not banish in a quote | future | a move = move | a move = move | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | a move = move | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | my father | banishment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | a move = move | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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