Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 20

Then he told it to his son, and his son told it to his son, and that son’s great-great-grandson’s son told it to his son’s son, and he told it to my father, and my father told it to me.”

Who acts: Cairide, son, father · What happens: tell · To what, where: Faery, son, father, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cairide, son, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 son	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 son	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grandson	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 son	case
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grandson	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 great	punct
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grandson	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 great	punct
26	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 son	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 grandson	case
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 son	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 son	nmod:poss
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 son	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 son	case
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 told	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 told	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	nsubj
39	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 father	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 told	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 told	cc
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 told	nsubj
48	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 told	obj
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 me	case
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 told	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Cairide	Faery	Cairide's son	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to son=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Cairide's son	Faery	Cairide's son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to son=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	that son's great great grandson's son	Faery	Cairide's son's son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to son=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	past	Cairide	Faery	my father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to father=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	my father	Faery	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=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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