Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 49
The man of the house said to me: 'There are bundles of rushes at the end of the room, go there and sit down with your men!'
Who acts: man, bundles · What happens: say, be, go, sit down · To what, where: me, end · 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 (man, bundles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | advcl |
| 13 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rushes | case |
| 15 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bundles | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sit | cc |
| 26 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 sit | compound:prt |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 men | nmod:poss |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sit | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man of the house | me | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | does | present | bundles of rushes | there | at the end of the room | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sit down | infinitive | with your men | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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