Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 23

Crede’ urged no more at that time, but as they were parting she whispered, “There are two girls, sisters of my own, in Morgan’s palace.

Who acts: Crede, bonds, two girls · What happens: urge, part, whisper, be · To what, where: more · 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 (Crede, bonds, two girls), 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	Crede	Crede	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 urged	nsubj
2	’	'	X	_	1 Crede	flat:foreign
3	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 more	det
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 urged	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 urged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whispered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 whispered	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 parting	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 parting	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 parting	aux
14	parting	part	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 whispered	advcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 whispered	nsubj
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 urged	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
19	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 are	expl
20	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 whispered	ccomp
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 girls	nummod
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 are	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sisters	punct
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 girls	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 own	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 own	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sisters	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 palace	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 palace	case
30	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 palace	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Morgan	case
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 girls	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 urged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	urge	past	Crede	no more		time	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Recipient
2	part	past · progressive	bonds = bond				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	whisper speech: assert	past	Crede				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	does in a quote	present	two girls and sisters of my own and Morgan's palace		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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