Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 15
"Faith, I'm going to seek my fortune till harvest comes in, God bless it!"
Who acts: Jack, Faith, God · What happens: go, seek, come in, bless · To what, where: fortune
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Faith, God), 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 | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
| 2 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Faith | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seek | mark |
| 8 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seek | obj |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 harvest | case |
| 12 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seek | obl |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 comes | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bless | punct |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bless | nsubj |
| 17 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 comes | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bless | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 bless | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Jack | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | my fortune | till harvest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | |||
| 3 | come in in a quote | present | Faith | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bless in a quote | infinitive | God | fortune | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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