Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 29
“Whatever it was,” said mac an Da’v, “what was it?”
Who acts: noise · What happens: be, say, mac · To what, where: Whatever, Da’v, noise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Whatever | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Whatever | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | 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 | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 it | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 what | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | noise | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | 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 a in a quote | past | noise | 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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