Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 33
“The man,” said mac an Da’v in a tone of great pity, “the man that took away your wife!
Who acts: man · What happens: say, mac, take away, intonate · To what, where: Da’v, tone, wife, great pity · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Da’v | det |
| 9 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pity | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pity | amod |
| 15 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tone | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tone | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | a tone of great pity and the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take away in a quote | past | the man | your wife | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | intonate | great pity | nom tone «communication 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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