Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 31
“For Duv Laca, or for any woman in the world?”
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 Duv | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Duv | case |
| 3 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Duv | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 woman | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 woman | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Duv | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Duv | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Duv | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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