Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 43
"Are you making game of me, man; what else have I to stake?"
Who acts: you, beggar · What happens: make, be, stake · To what, where: making game
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, beggar), 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 game | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 game | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 game | nsubj |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 game | amod |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 game | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 game | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stake | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 stake | obj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 what | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stake | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stake | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stake | mark |
| 16 | stake | stake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 game | parataxis |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 stake | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | gerund | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | making game and man | of the beggar = beggar | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stake in a quote | present | the beggar = beggar | making game and man | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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