Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 21

“Do you see this woman sitting beside me?” he continued, pointing to Duv Laca.

Who acts: you, woman, Branduv · What happens: see, sit, continue, point · To what, where: woman, Duv · 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 (you, woman, Branduv), 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 see	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 continued	ccomp
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sitting	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 continued	nsubj
13	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pointing	punct
15	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 continued	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Duv	case
17	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pointing	obl
18	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Duv	flat
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · do-support	you	this woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	sit in a quote	gerund	this woman not said here			beside Mongan	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location
3	continue	past	Branduv				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	point	gerund	Branduv not said here		Duv		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to duv=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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