Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 132

"Ah, now, Donald, we haven't always been friends," said Dudden, "but, as I was just saying, you were ever a decent lad, and you'll show us the way, won't you?"

Who acts: we, Donald, you · What happens: not be, say, be, show · To what, where: friends, decent lad, way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Donald, you), 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 Donald	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 Donald	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Donald	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
6	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friends	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 friends	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 friends	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 friends	advmod
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 friends	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 friends	cop
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Donald	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Donald	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Donald	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Dudden	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Dudden	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 lad	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 but	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 saying	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 saying	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saying	cop
25	just	just	ADV	_	26 saying	advmod
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 lad	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 lad	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lad	cop
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 lad	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lad	det
32	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lad	amod
33	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Dudden	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 show	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 show	cc
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 show	nsubj
37	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 show	aux
38	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	parataxis
39	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 show	iobj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 way	det
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 show	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 you	punct
43	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 you	aux
44	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 you	advmod
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 show	iobj
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 show	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present · perfect	we	friends			always property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	Donald and friends					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	past	Donald and friends = donald				say property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	past	you	a decent lad		ever		tree rules
5	show in a quote	future	you	the way	you			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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