Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 26
“There is indeed,” said mac an Da’v, “for I am sorrier myself.”
Who acts: sorrier · What happens: be, say, mac · To what, where: Da’v · 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 (sorrier), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Da’v | det |
| 10 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorrier | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorrier | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 sorrier | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sorrier | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorrier | cop |
| 16 | sorrier | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 mac | parataxis |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 sorrier | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mac | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | sorrier = sorry | myself obl; sorry property | 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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