Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 31
“Nevertheless, you musk ask him,” she insisted.
Who acts: you, Duv · What happens: musk, ask, insist · To what, where: Mongan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Duv), 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 | _ | 11 insisted | punct |
| 2 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 musk | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nevertheless | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 musk | nsubj |
| 5 | musk | musk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 insisted | advcl |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 musk | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 musk | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 musk | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 insisted | nsubj |
| 11 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | musk in a quote | present | you | nevertheless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Mongan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | insist speech: other | past | Duv | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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