Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 17
“I pass it and pledge it,” cried the joyful king.
Who acts: joyful king · What happens: pass, pledge, cry · To what, where: boon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joyful king), 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 pass | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pledge | cc |
| 6 | pledge | pledge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 pass | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pledge | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 12 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | present | the joyful king = king | boon | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pledge in a quote | infinitive | the joyful king = king not said here | boon | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the joyful king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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