Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 42
Those cattle are mine; they are on my land, and a dead man art thou." "
Who acts: cattle · What happens: be · To what, where: mine, land
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 (cattle), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 cattle | det |
| 2 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mine | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | cop |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 land | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 land | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 land | nmod:poss |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 art | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 art | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 art | nsubj |
| 16 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 land | parataxis |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 art | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that cattle | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | cattle | my land | tree rules |
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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