Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 11

“But how can I kill my wife’s father?”

Who acts: cleric · What happens: kill · To what, where: father

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 (cleric), 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 kill	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 kill	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kill	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kill	nsubj
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 wife	case
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	can	the cleric = cleric	my wife's father					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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