Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 31

“There is no one has a better right to be near me than Mongan has,” said Duv Laca, “he is my own husband,” said she.

Who acts: one, Mongan, Duv · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: better right, own husband · 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 (one, Mongan, Duv), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 right	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 right	amod
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	13 me	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 me	cop
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 has	mark
15	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 me	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 me	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 right	acl:relcl
20	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
21	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Duv	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 husband	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 husband	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 husband	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 husband	cop
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 husband	amod
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Duv	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 husband	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 husband	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no one not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	no one	a better right			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive				near me	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	Mongan				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past		a better right not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present	Duv	my own husband			tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Duv				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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