Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 44
"On another day he came again; but if he did, we were ready for him, my twelve sons and myself.
Who acts: hare, we · What happens: come, do, be
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 (hare, we), 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 | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ready | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ready | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ready | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ready | cop |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ready | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sons | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 21 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sons | nummod |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 him | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 myself | cc |
| 24 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 him | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | hare | again; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | hare | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | we | for hare; ready property | 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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