Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 133
"You're all witness," said Jack, "that my master says he is sorry for having met with me.
Who acts: You, witness, master · What happens: be, say, have, meet · To what, where: witness, that · 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 (You, witness, master), 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 witness | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 witness | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 witness | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 witness | advmod |
| 5 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 witness | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 witness | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 says | obj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sorry | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorry | cop |
| 18 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 says | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sorry | advcl |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 having | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 met | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | witness | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | witness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | my master | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | master | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | gerund | master not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | meet in a quote | participle | master not said here | with witness | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
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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