Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 96
"We want," says Jack, "what I'm sure you haven't to give us--and that is, common civility."
Who acts: We, Jack, you, that · What happens: want, say, be, not have, give · To what, where: us, common civility · 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, Jack, you, that), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 sure | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 civility | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 civility | cc |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 civility | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 civility | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 25 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 civility | amod |
| 26 | civility | civility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 civility | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 civility | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Jack | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | that | common civility | tree rules |
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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