Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 36
“Duv Laca says that you are to come at once, for the King of Leinster is journeying around his territory, and Kevin Cochlach, the charioteer, is making bitter love to her and wants her to run away with him.”
Who acts: Duv, you, King, Kevin · What happens: say, be, journey, make, want, run away · To what, where: territory, bitter love, Duv · 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 (Duv, you, King, Kevin), 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 | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 2 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 3 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duv | flat |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 journeying | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 journeying | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 journeying | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Leinster | case |
| 17 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 journeying | aux |
| 19 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 come | advcl |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 territory | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 territory | nmod:poss |
| 22 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 journeying | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 making | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 making | cc |
| 25 | Kevin | Kevin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 making | nsubj |
| 26 | Cochlach | Cochlach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Kevin | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 charioteer | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 charioteer | det |
| 29 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Kevin | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Kevin | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 making | aux |
| 32 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 journeying | conj |
| 33 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 love | amod |
| 34 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 making | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 making | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wants | cc |
| 38 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wants | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 run | mark |
| 41 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wants | xcomp |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 run | advmod |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 run | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Duv | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | journey in a quote | present · progressive | the King of Leinster | King's territory | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around territory=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · progressive | Kevin | bitter love | Duv | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Product | |||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | Duv not said here | Duv | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | run away not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Duv not said here | with King; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material |
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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