Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 23

“Well,” said Branduv, “this woman is Duv Laca of the White Hand that I took away from Mongan; she is just going to marry me, but if you will make an exchange, you can marry this Duv Laca here, and I will marry that Ivell of the Shining Cheeks yonder.”

Who acts: woman, that, you, I, Ivell · What happens: say, be, take away, go, marry, make · To what, where: Duv, Mongan, me, exchange, Duv Laca · 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 (woman, that, you, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Laca	compound
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Duv	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Duv	punct
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Duv	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Duv	cop
12	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Branduv	conj
13	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Hand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hand	det
16	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Hand	amod
17	Hand	Hand	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Laca	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 took	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 took	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 Mongan	case
23	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 going	advmod
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 marry	mark
30	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 going	xcomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 marry	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 marry	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 marry	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 make	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 make	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 make	aux
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 marry	advcl
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 exchange	det
39	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 make	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 make	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 marry	nsubj
42	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 marry	aux
43	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
44	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 Laca	nsubj
45	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Laca	compound
46	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 marry	obj
47	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 marry	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 marry	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 marry	cc
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 marry	nsubj
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 marry	aux
52	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 marry	conj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 Cheeks	mark
54	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Cheeks	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 Shining	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Shining	det
57	Shining	Shining	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Ivell	nmod
58	Cheeks	cheek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 marry	advcl
59	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	58 Cheeks	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	this woman	Duv			tree rules
3	take away in a quote	past	that		Mongan	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from mongan=Initial_Location
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	woman				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	woman not said here	me			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	a exchange			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exchange=Product
7	marry in a quote	can	you	Duv Laca	here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laca=Patient
8	marry in a quote	future	I				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	cheek in a quote	present	Ivell of the Shining			yonder property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/23/