Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 126
"Master," says Jack, "don't blame the honest man.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, not blame · To what, where: honest man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blame | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 blame | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 blame | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 blame | advmod |
| 11 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blame | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not blame in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the honest man | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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