Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 42

He whispered: “Besides the young man, named Flann, who was not slain, there was another person present at the scene and the combat and the transgression of Sunday.”

Who acts: word, Sunday · What happens: whisper, name, not slay, transgress · To what, where: young man, Flann · 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 (word, Sunday), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whispered	nsubj
2	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 whispered	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
5	Besides	besides	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whispered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 named	punct
10	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	acl
11	Flann	Flann	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 named	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slain	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 slain	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slain	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 slain	advmod
16	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Flann	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 present	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 present	compound
22	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 scene	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 scene	det
25	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 present	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 combat	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 combat	det
28	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scene	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 transgression	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 transgression	det
31	transgression	transgression	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scene	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Sunday	case
33	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 transgression	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	word		besides the young man	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	name in a quote	participle		the young man not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not slay in a quote	past · passive		Flann		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	transgress in a quote		Sunday			nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=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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