Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 2

And work became scarce, so the man said to his wife, "I will go search for work, and you may live here."

Who acts: work, man, wife · What happens: become, say, go, search, live · To what, where: wife · 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: who acts (work, man, wife), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 became	cc
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 work	case
20	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 search	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 live	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 live	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 live	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 live	aux
25	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 live	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	work			scarce property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the man	work's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	future	the man = man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	search in a quote	infinitive	the man = man not said here			for work	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for work=Theme
5	live in a quote	may	work's wife = wife		here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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