Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 36

"O musha, naybours!" says he, "wasn't it the height o' luck that threw you in my way!

Who acts: musha, prize, luck · What happens: say, not be, throw · To what, where: Jack, height, you, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (musha, prize, luck), 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	_	8 says	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	8 says	discourse
3	musha	musha	X	Foreign=Yes	8 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 naybours	punct
5	naybours	naybour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 musha	appos
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 naybours	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 naybours	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 height	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 height	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 height	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 height	nsubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 height	det
16	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 he	conj
17	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	19 luck	case
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 luck	punct
19	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 height	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 threw	nsubj
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 luck	acl:relcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 threw	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	musha	Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	not is a in a quote	past	prize	the height		of luck	tree rules
3	throw in a quote	past	luck	you	my way		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme in way=Destination

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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