Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 20
“No,” said Iollan proudly, “he will claim what I can give.”
Who acts: Iollan · What happens: say, claim, give · 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 (Iollan), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 claim | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 claim | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 claim | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 claim | aux |
| 12 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 give | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 claim | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Iollan | proudly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other in a quote | future | Iollan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | can | Iollan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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