Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 33
“Life and health, my good master, from Fionn, the son of Uail, the son of Baiscne,” said she to Fergus.
Who acts: Life · What happens: say · To what, where: Fergus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life), 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 Life | punct |
| 2 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 health | cc |
| 4 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Life | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Life | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fionn | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Fionn | case |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 master | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Fionn | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Uail | case |
| 16 | Uail | Uail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 son | det |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Fionn | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Baiscne | case |
| 21 | Baiscne | Baiscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Life | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Life | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Fergus | case |
| 27 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Life and health and my good master | Fergus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fergus=Recipient |
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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