Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 36
He's back here weighing out sackfuls of gold."
Who acts: Donald · What happens: be, weigh out · To what, where: sackfuls
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 here | advmod |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 here | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 weighing | compound:prt |
| 7 | sackfuls | sackful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weighing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sackfuls | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Donald | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh out | gerund | Donald not said here | sackfuls of gold | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sackful=Value |
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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