Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 18

“I can’t make out a word of the language except that the man behind says amen, amen, every time the man in front puts a grunt out of him.

Who acts: Mananna’n, man · What happens: not make out, say, put, word · To what, where: word, amen, grunt, language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mananna’n, 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	_	5 make	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 make	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 language	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 language	det
11	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod
12	except	except	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 except	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 language	nmod
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 says	mark
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	amen	amen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 amen	punct
20	amen	amen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 amen	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 puts	punct
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 puts	obl:unmarked
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 puts	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
28	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 grunt	det
30	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 puts	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	33 him	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 puts	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not make out in a quote	can	Mananna’n = mananna'n	a word of the language except the man			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the man not said here	amen and amen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent amen=Topic
3	put in a quote	present	the man in front	a grunt	time	out Mananna’n = mananna'n	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grunt=Theme out he=Destination
4	word in a quote			the language except the man			nom word «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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