Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 7

“Do they not, indeed?” said mac an Da’v.

What happens: not do, say · To what, where: men · 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: 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 mac	parataxis
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Do	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 indeed	punct
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Do	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mac	amod
10	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Da’v	det
12	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mac	appos
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mac	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	infinitive		men = man				indeed property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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