Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 34

Brindle cow, white speckled, Spotted cow, bold freckled, Old white face, and gray Geringer, And the white bull from the king's coast, Grey ox, and black calf, All, all, follow me home,

Who acts: Brindle cow, All · What happens: speckle, spot, freckle, gray, follow · To what, where: Spotted cow, bold, Geringer, me

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brindle cow, All), 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	Brindle	brindle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cow	amod
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speckled	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speckled	amod
5	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cow	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cow	punct
7	Spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cow	amod
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speckled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bold	punct
10	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cow	conj
11	freckled	freckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bold	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 face	punct
13	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 face	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 face	amod
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cow	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gray	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gray	cc
18	gray	gray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speckled	conj
19	Geringer	Geringer	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gray	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bull	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 bull	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bull	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bull	amod
24	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 coast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coast	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 king	case
29	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bull	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ox	punct
31	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ox	amod
32	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 calf	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 calf	cc
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 calf	amod
36	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 follow	punct
38	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 follow	nsubj:outer
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 All	punct
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 All	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 All	punct
42	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 calf	conj
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 follow	obj
44	home	home	ADV	_	42 follow	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speckle	participle	Brindle cow and the white bull from the king's coast and Grey ox and black calf not said here	Spotted cow and bold and Old white face		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	spot	participle				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	freckle	participle		bold not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	gray	infinitive	Brindle cow and the white bull from the king's coast and Grey ox and black calf not said here	Geringer		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent geringer=Patient
5	follow	infinitive	All	me	home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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