Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 58
Didn't you know, you bosthoon, that when I said 'holding the plough,' I meant reddening the ground."
Who acts: you, bosthoon, I · What happens: not do, know, bosthoon, say, hold, mean · To what, where: plough, ground · 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, bosthoon, 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Did | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bosthoon | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bosthoon | nsubj |
| 7 | bosthoon | bosthoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 said | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bosthoon | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plough | det |
| 16 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meant | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 meant | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 meant | nsubj |
| 20 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 holding | conj |
| 21 | reddening | redden | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 meant | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reddening | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bosthoon | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | bosthoon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hold | gerund | bosthoon not said here | the plough | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mean | past | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | redden not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
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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