Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 21

“Let him be,” they said.

Who acts: Fionn, sons · What happens: let, be, say · To what, where: Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, sons), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		Fionn	tree rules
2	be in a quote	infinitive	Fionn not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	sons = son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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