Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 117

"I'll now go in," said he, "to my cradle; for I scorn to lose my time with any one that's not able to eat my daddy's bread, or squeeze water out of a stone.

Who acts: son, one · What happens: go in, say, scorn, lose, not be, eat · To what, where: bread, water, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, one), 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 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cradle	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 cradle	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cradle	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cradle	nmod:poss
15	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 scorn	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 scorn	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 scorn	nsubj
19	scorn	scorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lose	mark
21	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 scorn	xcomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 time	nmod:poss
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lose	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 one	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lose	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 able	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 able	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 able	advmod
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 daddy	nmod:poss
34	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bread	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 daddy	case
36	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 squeeze	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 squeeze	cc
39	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 scorn	conj
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 squeeze	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	44 stone	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 stone	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 stone	det
44	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 squeeze	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in in a quote	future	son			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	son					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scorn in a quote	present	son					tree rules
4	lose in a quote	to-infinitive	son not said here			time	with any one	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present	any one				able property	tree rules
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	any one not said here	my daddy's bread				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
7	squeeze in a quote	present	son not said here	water	a stone			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out stone=Trajectory

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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