Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 34
If I run away, I am disgraced; and I know that sooner or later I must meet him, for my thumb tells me so."
Who acts: I, thumb · What happens: run away, disgrace, know, meet, tell · To what, where: I, baste, me · 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, thumb), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 run | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 disgraced | advcl |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 disgraced | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 disgraced | aux:pass |
| 8 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 disgraced | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 14 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 meet | advmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 later | cc |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 sooner | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 meet | aux |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tells | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 tells | mark |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 24 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tells | nsubj |
| 25 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 meet | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tells | iobj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 tells | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disgraced | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 disgraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away a condition, not said to happen | present | I | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disgrace | present · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | meet | must | I | baste | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | my thumb | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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