Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 20

“Because,” said mac an Da’v, “you learned nothing in the Land of Promise except how to eat a lot of food and how to do nothing in a deal of time.”

Who acts: you · What happens: say, mac, learn, eat, do, deal · To what, where: Da’v, nothing, Land, lot, deal, time · 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 (you), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Because	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Because	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mac	mac	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Da’v	det
8	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mac	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 learned	nsubj
12	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 learned	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 Land	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Land	det
16	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learned	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Promise	case
18	Promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Land	nmod
19	except	except	ADP	_	22 eat	mark
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 eat	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Promise	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lot	det
24	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 food	case
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lot	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 do	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 do	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 eat	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 do	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 deal	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 deal	det
34	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 time	case
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 deal	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mac	infinitive		a Da’v		tree rules
3	learn in a quote	past	you	nothing	the Land of Promise	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a lot of food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing	a deal of time	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
6	deal in a quote			time		nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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