Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 31
Then he put the tongues in his pocket and drove home the cattle.
Who acts: cowboy · What happens: put, drive · To what, where: tongues, pocket, cattle
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cowboy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tongues | det |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pocket | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl | ||
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drove | cc |
| 10 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 drove | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cattle | det |
| 13 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drove | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | cowboy | the tongues | cowboy's pocket | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme in pocket=Destination | ||
| 2 | drive | past | cowboy not said here | the cattle | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme |
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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