Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 22

"I have been in service," said Ivan, "and now I'm going home to my wife."

Who acts: service · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: service · 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 (service), 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	_	6 service	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 service	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 service	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 service	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 service	case
6	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 service	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 service	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 going	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 going	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 going	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect	service	service			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	service				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	service		now	to my wife; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location

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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