Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 32

“Take heed, sir,” said Fionn, “for the champions and great dragons of the Gael are standing by you, and around us there are fourteen battles of the Fianna of Ireland.”

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: take, say, stand, be · To what, where: heed, fourteen battles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sir	punct
5	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 standing	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 standing	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 champions	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 champions	det
14	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 standing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dragons	cc
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dragons	amod
17	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 champions	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Gael	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Gael	det
20	Gael	Gael	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dragons	nmod
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 standing	aux
22	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 standing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 battles	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 battles	cc
27	around	around	ADP	_	30 are	mark
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 are	nsubj
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 are	expl
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 battles	cop
31	fourteen	fourteen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 battles	amod
32	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Fianna	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fianna	det
35	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 battles	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Ireland	case
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Fianna	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 battles	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 battles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		heed and sir		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fionn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand in a quote	present · progressive	Fionn not said here		for the champions and great dragons of the Gael; by you	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by you=Location
4	is a in a quote	present		fourteen battles	of the Fianna of Ireland	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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