Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 130

"It is I that have the best harpers in the five-fifths of Ireland," said he, and he signed them to play.

Who acts: harper, beggarman · What happens: be, say, sign, play · To what, where: fifths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harper, beggarman), 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 have	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 harpers	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 harpers	amod
9	harpers	harper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 fifths	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fifths	det
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 fifths	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 five	punct
14	fifths	fifth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harpers	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ireland	case
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fifths	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 signed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 signed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 signed	nsubj
24	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 signed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 play	mark
27	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 signed	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	harper		have property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	beggarman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sign	past	beggarman	fifths = fifth		vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient when S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	play	to-infinitive	beggarman not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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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