Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 16
And Segda, returning his three kisses, agreed that the death was noble, but that it was not in his undertaking.
Who acts: Segda, death · What happens: return, agree, be, not be, kiss · To what, where: three kisses, undertaking · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Segda, death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 agreed | cc |
| 2 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Segda | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kisses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kisses | nummod |
| 7 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returning | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Segda | punct |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 noble | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noble | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 noble | cop |
| 14 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 agreed | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 undertaking | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 undertaking | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 undertaking | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 undertaking | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 undertaking | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 undertaking | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 undertaking | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 undertaking | nmod:poss |
| 23 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noble | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | Segda not said here | Segda's three kisses | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | Segda | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the death | noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | death | Segda's undertaking | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kiss | Segda | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=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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