Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 32
“Go,” said Mongan, “to Rath Descirt of Bregia; you know that place?”
Who acts: Mongan, you · What happens: go, say, know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, you), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Descirt | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Descirt | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Rath | case |
| 10 | Rath | Rath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Descirt | compound |
| 11 | Descirt | Descirt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mongan | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bregia | case |
| 13 | Bregia | Bregia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Descirt | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 place | mark |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Mongan and Rath Descirt of Bregia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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