Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 40

"By Jabers," says the king, "I say nothing beats the art o' man, barring the bees."

Who acts: Jabers, nothing · What happens: say, beat, bar · To what, where: king, art, bees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jabers, nothing), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 Jabers	case
3	Jabers	Jaber	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Jabers	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Jabers	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 beats	nsubj
14	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 art	det
16	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beats	obj
17	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	19 man	case
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beats	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 barring	punct
21	barring	bar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 beats	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bees	det
23	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 barring	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jabers	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Jabers = jaber			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beat in a quote	present	nothing	the art	of man	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location art=Theme
4	bar in a quote	gerund	nothing not said here	the bees		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer bee=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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