Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 31
“Where the one is the other will be,” cried mac an Da’v joyously.
Who acts: one, mac · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Da’v · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, mac), 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 | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 cried | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Where | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Da’v | det |
| 15 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obl |
| 16 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 12 cried | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the one | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | mac | a Da’v | joyously property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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