Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 49
“There is no politeness left in this country,” said the stranger, and he went away to a certain distance, and from thence he threw a stone at mac an Da’v’s nose, and hit it.
Who acts: politeness, stranger · What happens: be, leave, say, go away, throw, hit · To what, where: politeness, country, stone, mac, Da’v · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (politeness, stranger), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 politeness | det |
| 5 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 politeness | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stranger | det |
| 14 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 distance | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 distance | det |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 distance | amod |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 threw | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 threw | cc |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 thence | case |
| 27 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 29 threw | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 threw | nsubj |
| 29 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 stone | det |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 threw | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 mac | case |
| 33 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 threw | obl |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Da’v | det |
| 35 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 nose | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Da’v | case |
| 37 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 threw | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hit | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hit | cc |
| 40 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 threw | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 hit | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no politeness | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | participle | no politeness not said here | in this country result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in country=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go away | past | stranger | to a certain distance; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | stranger | a stone | mac | thence property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent stone=Destination nose=Theme | ||
| 6 | hit | past | stranger not said here | Da’v = da'v | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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