Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 89
"Oh, my poor captain," says they, "we believe you to the nines.
Who acts: we · What happens: say, believe · To what, where: marks, you · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 captain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 captain | amod |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 nines | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nines | det |
| 18 | nines | nine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 believe | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | marks = mark | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present | we | you | to the nines | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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