Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 27
“Your combat has indeed been gallant,” she said.
Who acts: combat, Becfola, Your · What happens: be, say, combat · 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 (combat, Becfola, Your), 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 | _ | 7 gallant | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 combat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gallant | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gallant | aux |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 gallant | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 gallant | cop |
| 7 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gallant | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gallant | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Your combat | gallant, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Becfola | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | combat in a quote | Your | nom combat «act transitive»: poss=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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