Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15
“I am the only man that knows it,” Cairide’ replied.
Who acts: I, only man · What happens: be, know, reply · To what, where: only man, name, Cairide · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, only 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Cairide | nmod:desc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knows | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 12 | Cairide | Cairide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cairide | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | I | the only man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | the only man | name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | Cairide | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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