Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 32

“I was born in this place,” said Tibraide’, “my father was born here before me, and my grandfather was born here before him, but until this day and this minute I never saw a river here before, and I never heard of one.”

Who acts: Tibraide · What happens: bear, say, not see, not hear · To what, where: Tibraide, place, father, grandfather, river · 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 (Tibraide), 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	_	4 born	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Tibraide	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 born	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 born	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 born	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 born	aux:pass
18	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 born	advmod
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 born	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 born	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 born	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grandfather	nmod:poss
25	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 born	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 born	aux:pass
27	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 born	conj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 born	advmod
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 born	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 saw	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 saw	cc
33	until	until	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 minute	cc
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 minute	det
38	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 day	conj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 saw	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 saw	advmod
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 river	det
43	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	obj
44	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 before	advmod
45	before	before	ADV	_	41 saw	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 heard	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 heard	cc
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 heard	nsubj
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 heard	advmod
50	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 saw	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 one	case
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 heard	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear in a quote	past · passive		Tibraide	this place			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Tibraide					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bear in a quote	past · passive		my father	here	before Tibraide		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	bear in a quote	past · passive		my grandfather	here	before Tibraide		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	not see in a quote	past	Tibraide	a river		day	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus
6	not hear in a quote	past	Tibraide				of one	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of one=Stimulus

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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