Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 3
Munachar said he must go look for a rod to make a gad to hang Manachar, who ate his raspberries every one; and he came to the rod. "
Who acts: Munachar, many, Manachar · What happens: say, go, look, make, hang, eat · To what, where: gad, raspberries, rod · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Munachar, many, Manachar), 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 | Munachar | Munachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 rod | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rod | det |
| 9 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 look | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gad | det |
| 13 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hang | mark |
| 15 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gad | acl |
| 16 | Manachar | Manachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ate | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ate | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ate | nsubj |
| 19 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hang | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 raspberries | nmod:poss |
| 21 | raspberries | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ate | obj |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ate | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 rod | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rod | det |
| 30 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Munachar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | must | many | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | many not said here | for a rod | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rod=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | many not said here | a gad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product | ||||
| 5 | hang | to-infinitive | many not said here | a gad not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | past | Manachar | many's raspberries | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | past | many | the rod | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rod=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/3/