Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 52
"I'm Saint Kavin," said the saint, blessing himself.
Who acts: Saint Kavin · What happens: be, say, bless · To what, where: Saint Kavin, Saint · 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 (Saint Kavin), 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 | _ | 5 Kavin | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Kavin | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Kavin | cop |
| 4 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kavin | compound |
| 5 | Kavin | Kavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kavin | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kavin | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saint | det |
| 10 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blessing | punct |
| 12 | blessing | bless | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 blessing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Saint Kavin = kavin | Saint Kavin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Saint Kavin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bless | gerund | Saint Kavin not said here | Saint | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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