Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 35

On the morning the cowboy rose before his master, and the first words he said to the Gruagach were:

Who acts: cowboy, first words · What happens: rise, say, be · To what, where: master, first words, Gruagach · Speech: someone speaks here

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, first words), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cowboy	det
5	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	nsubj
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 master	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 were	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 were	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 words	amod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 were	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 words	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Gruagach	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Gruagach	det
19	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rose	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	rise	past	the cowboy			cowboy's master	morning	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before master=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	cowboy	the first words not said here	the Gruagach			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to gruagach=Recipient
3	be	past	the first words					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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