Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 9

“What, what would Mananna’n say to that?”

Who acts: Mananna’n · What happens: say · 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 (Mananna’n), 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	_	7 say	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	would	Mananna’n					to that	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme what=Manner

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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