Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14

“Hail and a blessing,” said Iollan humbly.

Who acts: Hail · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hail), 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 Hail	punct
2	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blessing	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blessing	det
5	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hail	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hail	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hail	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hail and a blessing					humbly property	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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