Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 7
Go you on before me to the fortress, and you can talk to the queen that you’ll find there, she that used to be the King of Ulster’s wife.
Who acts: you, Tibraide · What happens: go on, talk, find, use, be · To what, where: you, queen, King
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 (you, Tibraide), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Go | compound:prt |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fortress | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fortress | det |
| 8 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talk | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 talk | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 talk | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | aux |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talk | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 find | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 queen | acl:relcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 find | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 used | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 used | nsubj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 used | nsubj |
| 25 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 King | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 King | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 used | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wife | case |
| 31 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Ulster | case |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 King | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | imperative | you not said here | you | before me | to the fortress | tree rules | ||
| 2 | talk | can | you | to the queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | the queen | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 4 | use | past | Tibraide | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the King | of Ulster's wife | tree rules |
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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