Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 23
“Praise be to god!” said the warrior that was higher up.
Who acts: Praise, god, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: warrior · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Praise, god, that), 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 | _ | 5 god | punct |
| 2 | Praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 god | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 god | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 god | case |
| 5 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 god | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 god | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 warrior | det |
| 10 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 higher | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 higher | cop |
| 13 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 warrior | amod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 higher | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | Praise | to god | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | god | the warrior | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent warrior=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | high property | tree rules |
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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