Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 18

“They are good rivers,” was the answer.

Who acts: Shannon, good rivers · What happens: be · To what, where: good rivers, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shannon, good rivers), 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	_	5 rivers	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rivers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rivers	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rivers	amod
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answer	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rivers	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 rivers	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Shannon	good rivers					tree rules
2	be speech: assert	past	good rivers	the answer					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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