Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 21
“He is not dead or he would be here,” she said.
Who acts: conversation, Uct · What happens: not be, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, Uct), 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 dead | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dead | advmod |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 here | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 here | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 here | cop |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dead | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | conversation | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | conversation | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Uct | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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