Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 41
So the cowboy unbound him, the two sat down together, and the Gruagach said:--
Who acts: cowboy, two, Gruagach · What happens: unbind, sit down, say · To what, where: 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, two, Gruagach), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 unbound | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cowboy | det |
| 3 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unbound | nsubj |
| 4 | unbound | unbind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unbound | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unbound | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gruagach | det |
| 15 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unbound | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 unbound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unbind | past | the cowboy | Gruagach | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the two | down, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Gruagach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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