Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 27

“Here,” said Iaran, “is a love of a man.

Who acts: Iaran · What happens: say, be · To what, where: love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iaran), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Iaran	Iaran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 love	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 love	det
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Iaran	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 man	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 love	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Iaran			here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		a love				of a man	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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