Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 30
"Don't be talking, man: you have all my money."
Who acts: you · What happens: not talk, have · To what, where: money
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 talking | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 talking | aux |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 money | det:predet |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 money | nmod:poss |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk in a quote | infinitive · progressive · do-support | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | my money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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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