Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 57

"He put the iron loops on the necks of my twelve sons, and put the wooden one on his own neck.

Who acts: man, iron · What happens: put, loop · To what, where: wooden one, own neck · 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, iron), 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	_	3 put	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 iron	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loops	nsubj
6	loops	loop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 necks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 necks	det
9	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loops	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 sons	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sons	nmod:poss
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sons	nummod
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 necks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 loops	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 neck	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 neck	amod
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	past	man				tree rules
2	loop in a quote	present	the iron			on the necks of my twelve sons	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on neck=Co-Patient
3	put in a quote	infinitive		the wooden one	man's own neck		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on neck=Destination

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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