Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15

I am by blood a Leinsterman,” he continued.

Who acts: I, saint · What happens: be, continue · 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 (I, saint), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 blood	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blood	cop
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 blood	case
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Leinsterman	det
6	Leinsterman	Leinsterman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blood	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Leinsterman	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Leinsterman	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continued	nsubj
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blood	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					by blood	tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	saint						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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