Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 30
There is one spike only which bears no head, and it is for your head that spike is waiting.
Who acts: one spike, head · What happens: be, wait
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 (one spike, head), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 spike | nummod |
| 4 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 bears | advmod |
| 6 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 7 bears | det |
| 7 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spike | nmod |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bears | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 head | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 head | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 head | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 head | cop |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 waiting | nsubj |
| 18 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waiting | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 waiting | aux |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 head | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one spike which bears no head | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | head | for your head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | present · progressive | your head | 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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