Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 45

“One must abide by a judgement,” said Fionn.

Who acts: One, Fionn · What happens: abide, say · 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 (One, Fionn), 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 abide	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 abide	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 abide	aux
4	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 judgement	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 judgement	det
7	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 abide	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 abide	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 abide	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abide in a quote	must	One					by a judgement	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Fionn						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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