Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 74
Is it fighting you've been? or mayhap you met the police, ill luck to them?"
Who acts: matter, you · What happens: fight, be, meet · To what, where: mayhap, police
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 (matter, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fighting | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mayhap | csubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 mayhap | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mayhap | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 mayhap | cop |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 mayhap | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 mayhap | cc |
| 9 | mayhap | mayhap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mayhap | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 police | det |
| 13 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 met | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 luck | punct |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 luck | amod |
| 16 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mayhap | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 luck | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 mayhap | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mayhap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present · progressive | matter | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | you | mayhap and ill luck to dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | you | the police | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Co-Agent |
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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