Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 24

“Well, he is Mongan,” said Mongan, “and these twenty-nine men are twenty-nine of his nobles from Ulster.”

Who acts: Tibraide, Mongan, nine men · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Mongan, twenty nine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tibraide, Mongan, nine men), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Mongan	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Mongan	cop
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mongan	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Mongan	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nine	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 nine	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nine	cc
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 men	det
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 nine	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 twenty	punct
17	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 men	nummod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nine	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 nine	cop
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 nine	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 twenty	punct
22	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 nobles	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nobles	nmod:poss
25	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nine	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 Ulster	case
27	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 nobles	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Tibraide	Mongan		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Mongan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	this nine men	twenty nine	of Tibraide's nobles from Ulster	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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