Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 56

"I'll stake the whole now, wife and all, against your own self," said the old man.

Who acts: old man · What happens: stake, say · To what, where: whole · 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 (old man), 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	_	4 stake	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stake	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stake	aux
4	stake	stake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whole	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stake	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stake	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stake	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 all	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wife	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 self	punct
13	against	against	ADP	_	16 self	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 self	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 self	amod
16	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stake	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stake	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stake	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stake in a quote	future	the old man = man	the whole			now		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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