Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 120

I admit fairly that I'm not a match for him," said he, "strong as I am; tell him I will avoid him as I would the plague, and that I will make myself scarce in this part of the country while I live."

Who acts: I, Cucullin · What happens: admit, not be, say, be, tell, avoid · To what, where: match, Cucullin, myself, part · 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 (I, Cucullin), 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 admit	nsubj
2	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
3	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	2 admit	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 match	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 match	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 match	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 match	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 match	det
9	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 admit	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 match	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 admit	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 admit	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 strong	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 strong	punct
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 I	case
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 strong	obl
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 strong	cop
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 avoid	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 avoid	aux
27	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 avoid	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 plague	case
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 plague	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 plague	aux
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plague	det
33	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 avoid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 make	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 make	cc
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 make	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 make	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	ccomp
40	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 make	obj
41	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 make	xcomp
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 part	case
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 part	det
44	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 country	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 country	det
47	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 part	nmod
48	while	while	SCONJ	_	50 live	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 live	nsubj
50	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 make	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present	I				fairly property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	I	a match			for Cucullin	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Cucullin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present					as I; strong property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			Cucullin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	avoid	future	I	Cucullin			as the plague	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location
7	make	future	I	myself		this part of the country	scarce property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product
8	live	present	I					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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