Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 8

The man said: "They're not ours."

Who acts: man · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: ours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ours	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ours	punct
6	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ours	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ours	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ours	advmod
9	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 said	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	man	ours					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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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