Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 92
"He is a champion who stands the war," said the youth.
Who acts: carlin, champion, youth · What happens: be, stand, say · To what, where: champion, war · 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 (carlin, champion, youth), 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 | _ | 5 champion | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 champion | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 champion | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 champion | det |
| 5 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 champion | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 war | det |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 champion | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 champion | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | carlin | a champion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | a champion | the war | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer war=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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