Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 46
Am I to be skivered like a rabbit before your eyes, and to have my name disgraced for ever in the sight of all my tribe, and me the best man among them?
Who acts: my · What happens: skiver, disgrace, name, sight · To what, where: I, sight, tribe
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 (my), 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 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 skivered | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 skivered | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 skivered | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 skivered | aux:pass |
| 5 | skivered | skiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 rabbit | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rabbit | det |
| 8 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skivered | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rabbit | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disgraced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 disgraced | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 disgraced | aux |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 skivered | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 disgraced | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disgraced | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tribe | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 tribe | det:predet |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sight | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 me | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 me | cc |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 skivered | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 me | conj |
| 34 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 man | nmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 skivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skiver | present · passive | I | like a rabbit before your eyes; me obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disgrace | infinitive · perfect | the sight of my tribe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sight | my tribe | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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