Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 10
“Good, my hosts,” he remonstrated, “it is geasa (taboo) for me to eat alone.”
Who acts: Good hosts, food · What happens: remonstrate, be, eat · To what, where: geasa
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 (Good hosts, food), 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 hosts | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hosts | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hosts | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hosts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hosts | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hosts | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 9 | remonstrated | remonstrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 geasa | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 geasa | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 geasa | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 geasa | cop |
| 14 | geasa | geasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 remonstrated | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 taboo | punct |
| 16 | taboo | taboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 geasa | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 taboo | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 remonstrated | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 remonstrated | advcl |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 eat | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remonstrated | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 remonstrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remonstrate | past | my Good hosts | for me | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | food | geasa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | my Good hosts not said here | alone property | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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