Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 65
God save all here!" said he; "is this where the great Fin M'Coul lives?"
Who acts: God, this, great Fin M'Coul · What happens: save, say, be, live · 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 (God, this, great Fin M'Coul), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 save | nsubj |
| 2 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 here | advmod |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 save | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 save | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 save | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 save | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 where | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 where | cop |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 where | nsubj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lives | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 M'Coul | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 M'Coul | amod |
| 16 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 M'Coul | compound |
| 17 | M'Coul | M'Coul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | nsubj |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 save | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | God | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | this | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | the great Fin M'Coul | 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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