Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 10
These things were said to Fionn, and Fionn said these things to himself.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say · To what, where: things, Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | this things | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to fionn=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | this things | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to himself=Recipient |
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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