Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 82
"Arrah, then," said she, "as you are so civil, maybe you'd do another obliging turn for us, as Fin's not here to do it himself.
Who acts: Arrah, you · What happens: say, be, do, oblige · To what, where: obliging turn, turn · 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 (Arrah, 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 | _ | 2 Arrah | punct |
| 2 | Arrah | Arrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arrah | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Arrah | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arrah | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arrah | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 civil | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 civil | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 civil | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 civil | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 civil | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 civil | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 civil | advmod |
| 15 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 17 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 civil | parataxis |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 turn | det |
| 22 | obliging | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 turn | amod |
| 23 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 here | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 here | mark |
| 28 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 here | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Fin | case |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 here | advmod |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 do | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 here | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 do | obj |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 do | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Arrah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Arrah | civil property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | would | you | another obliging turn | for us; maybe property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | oblige in a quote | gerund | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | turn | husband obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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