Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 4
“I never saw that kind of uniform before,” said mac an Da’v.
Who acts: I · What happens: not see, say, mac · To what, where: kind, Da’v · 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 (I), 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 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 uniform | case |
| 8 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Da’v | det |
| 15 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mac | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past | I | that kind of uniform | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | 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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