Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 17
“I will not,” said mac an Da’v, “for I’m your own husband, I’m your own mac, your little mac, your macky-wac-wac.”
Who acts: I · What happens: say, mac, be · To what, where: Da’v, own husband, own mac · 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 (I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 will | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 will | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Da’v | det |
| 10 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’m | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’m | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 ’m | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’m | nsubj |
| 15 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ’m | advcl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 husband | amod |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ’m | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’m | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ’m | nsubj |
| 21 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mac | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mac | amod |
| 24 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ’m | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mac | punct |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mac | nmod:poss |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mac | amod |
| 28 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mac | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wac | punct |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wac | nmod:poss |
| 31 | macky | macky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wac | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 macky | punct |
| 33 | wac | wac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wac | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wac | punct |
| 35 | wac | wac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mac | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’m | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | I | your own husband | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot husband=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | I | your own mac and your macky wac wac | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mac=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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