Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 6
“It is a long time since I saw you, Tibraide’,” said the king, “but at this minute I am in great haste and hurry.
Who acts: kiss, king · What happens: be, see, say, hurry · To what, where: long time, you, great haste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiss, 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 | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tibraide | punct |
| 12 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tibraide | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 haste | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 haste | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 haste | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 minute | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 minute | det |
| 24 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 haste | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 haste | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 haste | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 haste | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 haste | amod |
| 29 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hurry | cc |
| 31 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 haste | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | kiss | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | the king = king | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the king = king | great haste | minute | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hurry in a quote | infinitive | the king = king not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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