Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 25

“But,” said Duv Laca, “if I am sitting in a chair or a seat you are to sit in a chair that is over against me and opposite to me and at a distance from me.”

Who acts: Duv, you, that · What happens: say, sit, be · To what, where: chair, Duv · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, you, that), 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 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Duv	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 sitting	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sitting	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 chair	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chair	det
16	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 seat	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 seat	det
19	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chair	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 are	nsubj
21	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sit	mark
23	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 are	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 chair	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chair	det
26	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 me	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 me	cop
29	over	over	ADV	_	31 me	advmod
30	against	against	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 chair	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 opposite	cc
33	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 me	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 opposite	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 distance	cc
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 distance	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 distance	det
39	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 me	conj
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 distance	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Duv				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · progressive	Duv		a chair or a seat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
3	does in a quote	present	you				tree rules
4	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		a chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
5	is in a quote	present	that			against Duv; over property	tree rules
6	be in a quote		that not said here	Duv			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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