Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 6

"O musha, mother," says Jack, "why do you ax me that question? sure you know I wouldn't have your curse and Damer's estate along with it."

Who acts: mother, you, your · What happens: say, ax, know, not have, curse · To what, where: mother, curse · 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 (mother, you, your), 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	_	3 musha	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 musha	discourse
3	musha	musha	X	Foreign=Yes	5 mother	dep
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ax	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jack	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ax	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 ax	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ax	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 ax	nsubj
15	ax	ax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ax	obj
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 question	det
18	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ax	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	ccomp
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 have	advmod
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 curse	nmod:poss
28	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 estate	cc
30	Damer	Damer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 estate	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Damer	case
32	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curse	conj
33	along	along	ADP	_	35 it	case
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ax in a quote	present · do-support	you	mother	Jack vocative	tree rules
3	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not have in a quote	would	mother	your curse and Damer's estate	along curse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Patient
5	curse in a quote		your			nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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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