Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 69

"No," said the other, "he has the name of being the strongest and bravest man in Ireland; but for all that, there's a man not far from you that's very desirous of taking a shake with him.

Who acts: husband, man · What happens: say, have, be, take · To what, where: other, name, Ireland, man, shake · 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 (husband, man), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 name	det
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 man	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
17	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 man	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bravest	cc
19	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 strongest	conj
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Ireland	case
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 but	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 's	obl
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 all	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 all	punct
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 's	expl
30	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 but	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 's	nsubj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 far	advmod
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 desirous	advmod
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 far	obl
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 desirous	nsubj
38	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 desirous	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 desirous	advmod
40	desirous	desirous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	acl
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 taking	mark
42	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 desirous	advcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 shake	det
44	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 taking	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 taking	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	husband	the name			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	is in a quote	gerund			Ireland	of the strongest man	tree rules
4	be in a quote	present	a man		there	for all	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	a man	a man not said here		desirous, far property	tree rules
6	take in a quote	gerund	a man not said here	a shake		with husband	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shake=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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