Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 3

“Amen, amen,” said mac an Da’v.

Who acts: amen · What happens: say, mac · To what, where: Da’v · 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 (amen), 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	_	4 amen	punct
2	Amen	amen	INTJ	_	4 amen	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Amen	punct
4	amen	amen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 amen	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 amen	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	amen						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mac	infinitive		a Da’v					tree rules

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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