Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 22

“It is my business surely,” said mac an Da’v, “for my wife has gone off to Leinster with your wife, and she wouldn’t have gone if you hadn’t made a bet and a bargain with that accursed king.”

Who acts: business, Mongan · What happens: be, say, mac, go off, not go, not make · To what, where: business, Da’v, Leinster, 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 (business, 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 business	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 business	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 business	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 business	nmod:poss
5	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 business	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 business	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 business	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	mac	mac	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Da’v	det
12	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mac	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 mac	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 gone	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Leinster	case
22	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 wife	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gone	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 gone	advmod
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 gone	aux
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	parataxis
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 made	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 made	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 made	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 made	advmod
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 gone	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bet	det
39	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 bargain	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bargain	det
42	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bet	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 king	case
44	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 king	det
45	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 king	amod
46	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bargain	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	business	my business		surely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my business				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mac	infinitive		a Da’v			tree rules
4	go off in a quote	present · perfect			Leinster	for my wife; with your wife	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
5	not go in a quote	would · perfect	Mongan				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bet=Product
7	accurs in a quote	participle					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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