Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 15

But one night when Mongan seemed to speak with Duv Laca he mentioned her father as Fiachna Duv mac Demain, and the story-teller said that king had been dead for a vast number of years.

Who acts: Mongan, story teller, king · What happens: seem, speak, mention, say, be · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, story teller, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 seemed	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 seemed	advmod
5	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seemed	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Laca	case
10	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Laca	compound
11	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mentioned	nsubj
13	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mentioned	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 Demain	case
17	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Demain	compound
18	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Fiachna	flat
19	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Demain	compound
20	Demain	Demain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mentioned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 teller	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 teller	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 story	punct
26	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 dead	mark
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dead	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dead	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 dead	cop
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	ccomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 number	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 number	det
35	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 number	amod
36	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dead	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 years	case
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 number	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Mongan		night		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Mongan not said here			with Duv Laca	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with laca=Co-Agent
3	mention speech: other	past	Mongan	lament's father		as Fiachna mac Demain	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the story teller				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past · perfect	king			for a vast number of years; dead property	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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