Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 38

“Tell us that,” said Fionn turning to Oisi’n [pronounced Usheen]

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: tell, say, turn, pronounce · To what, where: us, Oisi’n, Usheen · 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 (Fionn), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 us	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Oisi’n	case
11	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turning	obl
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 pronounced	punct
13	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	Usheen	Usheen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pronounced	obj
15	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 pronounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Fionn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	gerund	Fionn not said here		Oisi’n	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to oisi'n=Result
4	pronounce	past		Usheen		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent usheen=Result

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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