Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 11

The people who were going with them said to one another that mac an Da’v was a queer kind of clerk, and that they had never seen any one who had such a mouthful of amens.

Who acts: people, mac, one · What happens: go, say, be, not see, have · To what, where: one queer kind, one, mouthful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, mac, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 people	acl:relcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	obl
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 kind	nummod
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 mac	det
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 mac	det
13	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nsubj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Da’v	det
15	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mac	appos
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kind	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 kind	det
18	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kind	amod
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 clerk	case
21	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seen	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 seen	advmod
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 one	acl:relcl
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 mouthful	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mouthful	det
35	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 amens	case
37	amens	amen	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mouthful	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the people		with people	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	the people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	another mac	a one queer kind	of clerk	tree rules
4	not see	past · perfect	people	any one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
5	have	past	any one	such mouthful of amens		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient

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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