Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 74

"Well," said the other, "I am Cucullin, and I have been seeking him these twelve months, but he always kept clear of me; and I will never rest night or day till I lay my hands on him."

Who acts: I, husband · What happens: say, be, seek, keep, not rest, lie · To what, where: other, Cucullin, husband, hands · 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, husband), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	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	_	12 Cucullin	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Cucullin	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Cucullin	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Cucullin	cop
12	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seeking	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seeking	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seeking	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 seeking	aux
18	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seeking	obj
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 months	det
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 months	nummod
22	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seeking	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 kept	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kept	nsubj
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 kept	advmod
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
28	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kept	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 clear	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 rest	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rest	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 rest	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 rest	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 rest	advmod
36	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rest	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 day	cc
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 night	conj
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 lay	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 lay	nsubj
42	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 rest	advcl
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hands	nmod:poss
44	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lay	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lay	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	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	is a in a quote	present	I	Cucullin			tree rules
3	seek in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	I	husband	month		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	keep in a quote	past	husband			always, clear property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not rest in a quote	future	I		night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lie in a quote	past	I	my hands		on husband	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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