Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 20

“Nobody could say you were,” agreed Mongan.

Who acts: Nobody, you, Mongan · What happens: say, be, agree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, you, Mongan), 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	_	4 say	punct
2	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 agreed	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 were	nsubj
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
9	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 agreed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	could	Nobody	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	past	you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	past	Mongan	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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