Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 82
We must clear a road through this," said the cowboy.
Who acts: We · What happens: clear, say · To what, where: road, this, cowboy · 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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 clear | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 clear | aux |
| 3 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clear | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 clear | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clear | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cowboy | det |
| 12 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | must | We | a road | this | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the cowboy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cowboy=Topic |
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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