Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9

He said that his name was Cairide’, and that he had a story to tell which could not be bettered among the stories of Ireland.

Who acts: neighbourhood, name, stories · What happens: say, be, have, tell, not better, name · To what, where: Cairide, story · 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 (neighbourhood, name, stories), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 Cairide	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Cairide	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Cairide	cop
7	Cairide	Cairide	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Cairide	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 story	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	advcl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bettered	nsubj:pass
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bettered	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bettered	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 bettered	aux:pass
22	bettered	better	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tell	ccomp
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 stories	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stories	det
25	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bettered	obl:agent
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Ireland	case
27	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 stories	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	neighbourhood		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	neighbourhood's name	Cairide	tree rules
3	have	past	neighbourhood	a story	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	neighbourhood not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not better	could · passive	the stories of Ireland		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
6	name		neighbourhood		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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