Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 5

“They are both good ways,” said Mac an Da’v, “and whichever of them you decide on I’ll stick by.”

Who acts: men, good ways, Mac · What happens: be, say, decide, stick by · To what, where: good ways · 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 (men, good ways, Mac), 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 ways	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ways	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ways	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	6 ways	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ways	amod
6	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ways	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ways	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 decide	nsubj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Da’v	det
12	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mac	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whichever	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 whichever	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whichever	cc
16	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mac	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 whichever	nmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 decide	nsubj
20	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 stick	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 stick	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stick	aux
24	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 decide	ccomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	24 stick	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	men = man	good ways	both property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	good ways			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	decide in a quote	present	Mac			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stick by in a quote	future	good ways = way			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: 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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