Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 89
"It was I who won your daughter, not he; and if you don't believe me, the Gruagach Gaire is here himself.
Who acts: reason, king, you, Gruagach Gaire · What happens: be, win, not believe · To what, where: king, daughter, man
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 (reason, king, you, Gruagach Gaire), 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 won | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 I | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 won | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 won | nsubj |
| 6 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 he | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 he | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 won | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 himself | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 himself | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 believe | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 believe | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 believe | advmod |
| 18 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 himself | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 believe | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 believe | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Gaire | det |
| 22 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gaire | compound |
| 23 | Gaire | Gaire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 himself | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 himself | cop |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 himself | advmod |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 won | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | reason | the king of Erin = king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past | the king of Erin = king | your daughter | man obl | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not believe a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | the king of Erin = king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the Gruagach Gaire | man | here | 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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