Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 16
“Advise me,” he broke in, “for in truth there is no man standing in such need of counsel as I do.”
Who acts: you, Art, man · What happens: advise, break in, be, stand, do, need · To what, where: Art, man, such need, counsel · 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 (you, Art, man), 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 | _ | 2 Advise | punct |
| 2 | Advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Advise | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Advise | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Advise | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Advise | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 broke | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 truth | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 truth | case |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | obl |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 man | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 need | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 need | amod |
| 21 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 counsel | case |
| 23 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 need | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 broke | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Advise | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Advise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Art | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | break in | past | Art | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | no man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | gerund | no man not said here | such need of counsel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in need=Location | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | Art | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | need in a quote | counsel | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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