Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 18
“This time,” said he to mac an Da’v, “I’ll get back my wife.”
Who acts: Mongan, I · What happens: say, mac, get back · To what, where: Da’v, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, I), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mac | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 mac | mark |
| 9 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Da’v | det |
| 11 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mac | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mac | to-infinitive | Mongan | a Da’v | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get back in a quote | future | I | my wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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