Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 18

I'm a poor, old, lame, decrepit, miserable creature, sitting down here to rest awhile."

Who acts: I, miserable creature · What happens: be, sit down, rest

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 (I, miserable creature), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poor	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lame	punct
8	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 decrepit	punct
10	decrepit	decrepit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poor	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 creature	punct
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creature	amod
13	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 decrepit	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 creature	acl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sitting	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rest	mark
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sitting	advcl
20	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	19 rest	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		poor property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here			tree rules
3	be		I not said here			tree rules
4	sit down	gerund	miserable creature not said here	here	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	to-infinitive	miserable creature not said here		awhile property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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