Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 9
“I have come,” said she, “from the east to the west; you must come from the west to the east and make war for me, and revenge me on the King of Lochlann.”
Who acts: Hag, you · What happens: come, say, make · To what, where: west, war · 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 (Hag, you), 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 east | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 east | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 east | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 east | det |
| 13 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 west | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 west | det |
| 16 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 east | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 west | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 west | det |
| 23 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 east | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 east | det |
| 26 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 29 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 revenge | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 revenge | cc |
| 34 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 revenge | nmod |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 King | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 King | det |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 revenge | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Lochlann | case |
| 40 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 King | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 King | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 revenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | Hag | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | must | you | the west | to the east | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from west=Initial_Location to east=Destination | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | war | for Hag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent war=Product for i=Beneficiary |
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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