Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 41
And when he said that his spirits revived, and he called for mac an Da’v.
Who acts: King, spirits · What happens: say, revive, call · 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 (King, spirits), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 revived | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 revived | nsubj |
| 8 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 mac | case |
| 14 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Da’v | det |
| 16 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | revive | past | King's spirits | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | call | past | King | for mac | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mac=Recipient |
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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