Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 34

After supper the cowboy would give no talk to his master, but kept his mind to himself, and went to the bed of silk to sleep.

Who acts: cowboy · What happens: give, keep, go, sleep, mind · To what, where: talk, master, mind, cowboy, bed

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	After	after	ADP	_	2 supper	case
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cowboy	det
4	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 talk	det
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 master	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mind	nmod:poss
16	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 kept	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bed	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bed	det
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 silk	case
26	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bed	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	would	the cowboy	no talk	cowboy's master		after supper	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent talk=Theme to master=Recipient
2	keep	past	the cowboy not said here	cowboy's mind	cowboy			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme
3	go	past	the cowboy not said here			the bed of silk		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the cowboy not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mind		cowboy					nom mind «cognition 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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