Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 56

"An' ain't I strivin' to hold this divel of a plough, as you told me; but that ounkrawn of a boy keeps whipping on the bastes in spite of all I say; will you speak to him?"

Who acts: ai, strivin, you, ounkrawn, master · What happens: not strivin, hold, tell, keep, whip, say · To what, where: divel, master, bastes, ounkrawn · 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 (ai, strivin, you, ounkrawn), 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	_	7 strivin	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ai	det
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 An	punct
4	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strivin	nsubj
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 strivin	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 strivin	nsubj
7	strivin	strivin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 strivin	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 divel	det
12	divel	divel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 plough	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plough	det
15	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 divel	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 told	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 keeps	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 keeps	cc
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 ounkrawn	det
24	ounkrawn	ounkrawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeps	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 boy	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ounkrawn	nmod
28	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	parataxis
29	whipping	whip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 keeps	xcomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 bastes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bastes	det
32	bastes	baste	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 whipping	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 spite	case
34	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 whipping	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 spite	nmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 say	nsubj
38	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 all	acl:relcl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 speak	punct
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 speak	aux
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 speak	nsubj
42	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hold	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 speak	obl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hold	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not strivin in a quote		a ai					tree rules
2	hold in a quote	to-infinitive	strivin	this divel of a plough				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent divel=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	you		the master = master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	keep in a quote	present	that ounkrawn of a boy					tree rules
5	whip in a quote	gerund	that ounkrawn of a boy not said here			the bastes	in spite of all	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on baste=Location
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the master = master					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	speak speech: other in a quote	future	you		ounkrawn			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/56/