Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 66
"Indeed it is, honest man," replied Oonagh; "God save you kindly--won't you be sitting?"
Who acts: invention, Indeed honest man, God, you · What happens: be, reply, save, not sit · To what, where: you · 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 (invention, Indeed honest man, God, you), 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 | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Indeed | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Indeed | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 save | nsubj |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 save | obj |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 15 save | advmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
| 19 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sitting | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 sitting | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sitting | aux |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 save | parataxis |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | invention | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | Indeed honest man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | save in a quote | infinitive | God | you | kindly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | not sit in a quote | future · progressive | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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