Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 6
“Indeed, I have a right to be in my own house,” said Mongan.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: have, be, say · To what, where: right, own house · 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 (Mongan), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 right | det |
| 7 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 house | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 house | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 right | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Mongan | a right | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Mongan not said here | a right not said here | my own house | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | 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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