Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 38
“What is the bridge for?” said Tibraide’ Mongan and mac an Da’v followed them.
Who acts: bridge, Mongan · What happens: be, say, follow · To what, where: bridge, gods · 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 (bridge, Mongan), 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 bridge | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 bridge | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bridge | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bridge | det |
| 5 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bridge | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bridge | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bridge | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mongan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 10 Tibraide | case |
| 12 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mac | cc |
| 14 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mongan | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Da’v | det |
| 16 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the bridge | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the bridge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | Tibraide's Mongan and mac | gods = god | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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