Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 57
I'm Saint Kavin," says he, "the greatest of all the saints."
Who acts: I, Saint · What happens: be, say · To what, where: 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 (I, Saint), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Saint | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Saint | cop |
| 3 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Kavin | Kavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Saint | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Saint | acl:relcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 greatest | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 greatest | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 greatest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 greatest | det |
| 12 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 says | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 saints | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 saints | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 saints | det |
| 16 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 greatest | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Saint | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Saint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Saint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Saint not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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