Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 91

Why say so when you were at home every Sunday?"

Who acts: you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 home	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 home	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 home	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Sunday	det
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 Sunday	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Sunday	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present					sunday		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	you			home			tree rules

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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