Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 17
The land is parched, the trees are withered, the birds do not sing in Ireland, and the bees do not make honey.”
Who acts: birds, bees · What happens: parch, wither, not sing, not make · To what, where: land, trees, Ireland, honey
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 (birds, bees), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 parched | aux:pass |
| 4 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 withered | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 withered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 withered | aux:pass |
| 9 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 parched | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sing | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sing | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 sing | advmod |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 parched | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bees | det |
| 21 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 make | advmod |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 parched | parataxis |
| 25 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 parched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parch | present · passive | the land | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | wither | present · passive | the trees | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not sing speech: express | present · do-support | the birds | Ireland | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location | ||||
| 4 | not make | present · do-support | the bees | honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product |
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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