Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 12
Then said the master, "Never leave the old road for the sake of a new one."
What happens: say, not leave · To what, where: master, old road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 7 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 leave | advmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sake | det |
| 14 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sake | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not leave in a quote | infinitive | the old road | for the sake of a new one | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent road=Theme for sake=Recipient |
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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