Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 5
“Even if you didn’t,” said Mongan, “there are plenty of them about.
Who acts: you, Mongan, plenty · What happens: not do, say, be · 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 (you, Mongan, plenty), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 did | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 are | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 plenty | nmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 are | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | plenty of men | there | about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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