Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23

“It’s yourself, beggarman,” jeered Cael.

Who acts: dog, yourself · What happens: be, jeer · To what, where: yourself, Cael

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 (dog, yourself), 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 yourself	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yourself	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 yourself	cop
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 jeered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beggarman	punct
6	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yourself	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yourself	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 yourself	punct
9	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 jeered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 jeered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	dog	yourself					tree rules
2	jeer	past	yourself	Cael					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cael=Theme

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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