Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23

“He is alive,” that cleric responded.

Who acts: king, alive · What happens: be, respond · 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 (king, alive), 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	_	4 alive	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alive	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	cop
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 responded	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 alive	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 alive	punct
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cleric	det
8	cleric	cleric	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 responded	nsubj
9	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	king					alive property	tree rules
2	respond speech: other	past	alive						vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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