Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 46
“So long as we know,” said mac an Da’v.
Who acts: we · What happens: know, say, mac · To what, where: 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 (we), 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 | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Da’v | det |
| 12 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mac | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | long property | 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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