Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 54
"Close your ranks, my men," says he in a whisper, "and let every one mind the word of command."
What happens: close, say, let, word · To what, where: ranks, health, whisper, one mind, command · 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: 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 Close | punct |
| 2 | Close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ranks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Close | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ranks | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 whisper | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 whisper | det |
| 14 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whisper | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 whisper | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | conj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 mind | det |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 mind | nummod |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 command | case |
| 25 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 word | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close in a quote | infinitive | your ranks and my men | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | health | a whisper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | every one mind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mind=Recipient word=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word in a quote | command | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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