Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 13
“The one behind must be his servant, for he has a load on his back.”
Who acts: one · What happens: be, have · To what, where: servant, load, back
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 servant | case |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 servant | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 servant | cop |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 load | det |
| 14 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 load | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | Mananna’n's servant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the one | a load | Mananna’n's back | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
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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