Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 89
It's not long I'll be here, at all events."
Who acts: It, I · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: events
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 (It, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 here | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 here | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 here | cop |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 long | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 events | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 events | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 events | det |
| 12 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 long | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | all events | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | future | I | here property | 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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