Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 29

“It wasn’t Tibraide was here,” said the hag who was still sitting on the spike, and was not half dead, “it was Mongan.”

Who acts: more, Tibraide, hag · What happens: not be, be, say, sit · To what, where: Tibraide, hag, spike, Mongan · 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 (more, Tibraide, hag), 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	_	5 Tibraide	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Tibraide	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Tibraide	cop
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Tibraide	advmod
5	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 here	cop
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 Tibraide	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 here	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Tibraide	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hag	det
12	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sitting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sitting	aux
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 sitting	advmod
16	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hag	acl:relcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 spike	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spike	det
19	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dead	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dead	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 half	advmod
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 dead	advmod
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Mongan	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 Mongan	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 Mongan	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Mongan	cop
30	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dead	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 Mongan	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past	more	Tibraide				tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	Tibraide not said here				here property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Tibraide	the hag				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hag=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	the hag		the spike	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spike=Location
5	is	past					dead property	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	past	more	Mongan				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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