Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 23

“I will undertake the defence,” said Fionn.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: undertake, say · To what, where: defence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. 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	_	4 undertake	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 undertake	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 undertake	aux
4	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 defence	det
6	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undertake	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 undertake	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 undertake	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake in a quote	future	Fionn	the defence					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Fionn						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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