Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 12
“It is not a choice journey,” said Art, “but I have no choice and must go.”
Who acts: wilderness, choice journey · What happens: not be, say, have, go · To what, where: choice journey, choice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wilderness, choice journey), 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 | _ | 7 journey | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 journey | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 journey | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 journey | compound |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 journey | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 journey | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 choice | det |
| 18 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | wilderness | a choice journey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a choice journey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a choice journey = journey | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | must | a choice journey = journey not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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