Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 31

“If Uail the son of Baiscne has a son,” said the king, “you would surely be that son.”

Who acts: Uail, king, you · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uail, king, you), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 has	mark
3	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Baiscne	case
7	Baiscne	Baiscne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 son	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 son	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 son	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 son	aux
20	surely	surely	ADV	_	23 son	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 son	cop
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 king	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Uail	a son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the king and that son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	would	you	that son	surely property	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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