Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 41
“I never before heard,” said Mongan, “of a man giving away his own wife.”
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: not hear, say, give away · To what, where: own wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. 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 | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obl |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 giving | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wife | amod |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | participle | Mongan | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give away in a quote | gerund | Mongan's own wife | of a man; away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
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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