Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 28

“Alas,” he replied, “if it has been a gallant deed it has not been a good one, for my three brothers are dead and my four nephews are dead.”

Who acts: Alas, combat, four nephews · What happens: reply, be, have, not be · To what, where: gallant deed, good one · 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 (Alas, combat, four nephews), 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 Alas	punct
2	Alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deed	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 deed	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 deed	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 deed	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deed	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 deed	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 deed	det
14	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deed	amod
15	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deed	acl:relcl
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 one	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 one	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dead	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 brothers	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brothers	nmod:poss
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 brothers	nummod
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dead	obl
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dead	cop
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dead	cc
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 nephews	nmod:poss
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 nephews	nummod
33	nephews	nephew	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dead	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dead	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Alas			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	combat	a gallant deed		tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	combat	a gallant deed not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Patient
4	not is a in a quote	participle		a good one		tree rules
5	is in a quote	present			for my three brothers; dead property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	my four nephews		dead property	tree rules

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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