Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 29
He came down off the horse, and he divided the carcass amongst the three.
Who acts: man · What happens: come down, divide · To what, where: carcass
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:1313): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 divided | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 divided | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 divided | nsubj |
| 10 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carcass | det |
| 12 | carcass | carcass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 divided | obj |
| 13 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 15 three | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 three | det |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 divided | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | man | off the horse; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off horse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | divide | past | man | the carcass | amongst the three | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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