Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 133
"I don't see that I'm called upon to do that; there is a power more cattle down there.
Who acts: Donald, power · What happens: not see, call, do, be · To what, where: Donald, that · 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 (Donald, power), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 is | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 called | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | ccomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 called | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 power | det |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 there | advmod |
| 20 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 there | nsubj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 there | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 is | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | Donald and friends = donald | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present · passive | Donald and friends = donald | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a power | there; there | 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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