Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 6
They are men that don’t believe in our gods,” said he.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, not believe, say · To what, where: men · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 men | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 men | cop |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 believe | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 believe | advmod |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 men | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gods | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gods | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 believe | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | men = man | men | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not believe | present · do-support | men | in our gods | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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