Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9

“Goll,” said he, “how long have you been taking tribute from the people of Lochlann?”

Who acts: Goll · What happens: say, take · To what, where: tribute · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goll), 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 Goll	punct
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Goll	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Goll	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taking	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 taking	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 taking	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 taking	nsubj
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 taking	aux
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
15	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 people	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 taking	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Lochlann	case
20	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 people	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Goll						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	Goll	tribute				from the people of Lochlann; long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme from people=Initial_Location

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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