Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 10

“At the end of that time,” said Tuan, “Nemed the son of Agnoman came to Ireland with a fleet of thirty-four barques, and in each barque there were thirty couples of people.”

Who acts: Tuan, thirty couples · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: end, Ireland, barque · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuan, thirty couples), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Nemed	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Nemed	punct
14	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tuan	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Nemed	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Agnoman	case
18	Agnoman	Agnoman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Ireland	case
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 fleet	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fleet	det
24	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 barques	case
26	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 four	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 thirty	punct
28	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 barques	nummod
29	barques	barque	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fleet	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 were	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 were	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 barque	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 barque	det
34	barque	barque	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 were	obl
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 were	expl
36	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
37	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 couples	nummod
38	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 were	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 people	case
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 couples	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			at the end of that time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	past	Tuan and Nemed	Ireland		with a fleet of four barques	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial_Location
3	be in a quote	past	thirty couples of people	each barque; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barque=Location

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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