Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 2

They had poultry in their yards, sheep on the uplands, and scores of cattle in the meadow-land alongside the river.

Who acts: names · What happens: have, score · To what, where: poultry, cattle

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 (names), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 yards	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 yards	nmod:poss
6	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sheep	punct
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yards	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 uplands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 uplands	det
11	uplands	upland	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sheep	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scores	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scores	cc
14	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cattle	case
16	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scores	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
19	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 land	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 meadow	punct
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cattle	nmod
22	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 land	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	names = name	poultry				in names's yards and sheep on the uplands	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Patient
2	score			cattle in the meadow land alongside the river					nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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