Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 18

“It was a poor day brought you off with Mananna’n to the Land of Promise,” said his servant.

Who acts: Da’v, servant · What happens: be, bring off, say · To what, where: poor day, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Da’v, servant), 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	_	7 brought	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	parataxis
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 brought	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Mananna’n	case
11	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Land	det
14	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Promise	case
16	Promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Land	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 servant	nmod:poss
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Da’v = da'v	a poor day		tree rules
2	bring off in a quote	past		you	with Mananna’n; to the Land of Promise	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Mananna’n's servant			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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