Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10
“And each of us three is the match for an hundred,” said Iaran.
Who acts: each, Iaran · What happens: be, say · To what, where: three match · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (each, 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 | _ | 9 match | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 match | cc |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 match | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 each | nmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 match | nummod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 match | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 match | det |
| 9 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hundred | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 match | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 match | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 match | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Iaran | Iaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | each | the three match | for a hundred | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Iaran | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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