Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 141
Give me, along with my double wages, two hundred guineas to support my poor brothers, and I'll do without the strap."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, support, do · To what, where: me, poor brothers
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, I), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wages | punct |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 wages | case |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wages | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wages | nmod:poss |
| 7 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wages | amod |
| 8 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guineas | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 guineas | nummod |
| 12 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wages | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 support | mark |
| 14 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 guineas | acl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brothers | amod |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 support | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 strap | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 strap | det |
| 25 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | me | along my double wages and hundred guineas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | support | to-infinitive | you not said here | my poor brothers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | future | I | without the strap | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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