Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 40
“Nor did I,” Becuma replied, and she called on the onlookers to confirm that statement.
Who acts: Becuma · What happens: do, reply, call, confirm · To what, where: onlookers, statement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 7 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 onlookers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 onlookers | det |
| 15 | onlookers | onlooker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 confirm | mark |
| 17 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 called | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 statement | det |
| 19 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 confirm | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | Becuma | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Becuma | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call | past | Becuma | the onlookers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | confirm | to-infinitive | Becuma not said here | that statement | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot statement=Topic |
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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