Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 42
Oh, for this life and raiment, you man that came in, keep restraint on your tongue!" said the old woman. "
Who acts: you, man, old woman · What happens: man, come in, keep, say · To what, where: restraint, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, old woman), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 keep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 life | det |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oh | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 raiment | cc |
| 7 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 man | nsubj |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 16 | restraint | restraint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 tongue | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | man | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come in | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | restraint | your tongue | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent restraint=Theme on tongue=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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