Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 13

“By starting about it at once,” said the cleric.

Who acts: cleric · What happens: start, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cleric), 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	_	3 starting	punct
2	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 starting	mark
3	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 said	ccomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starting	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 starting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 starting	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 starting	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cleric	det
12	cleric	cleric	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start in a quote	gerund						about leisure	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the cleric						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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