Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 43

I say not that," says the herd; "there is no knowing, but that may be easier to say than to do."

Who acts: I, that · What happens: not say, say, be, know, do · To what, where: herd · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 say	advmod
4	that	that	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 herd	det
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 knowing	det
15	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 is	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 easier	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 easier	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 easier	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 easier	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 easier	cop
21	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 says	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 say	mark
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 easier	csubj
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 do	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 say	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present	I			that property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		the herd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herd=Topic
3	be	present			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	may	that			easy property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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