Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 46
Ivan," cried they, "bad luck sticks to us; our host was killed last night, and we shall be hanged for it."
Who acts: Ivan, bad luck · What happens: cry, stick, kill, hange · To what, where: man, us, host, we
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 (Ivan, bad luck), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivan | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sticks | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sticks | punct |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 luck | amod |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sticks | nsubj |
| 10 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sticks | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 host | nmod:poss |
| 15 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sticks | parataxis |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 night | amod |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hanged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hanged | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 hanged | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hanged | aux:pass |
| 25 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 killed | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hanged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sticks | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sticks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Ivan | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stick | present | bad luck | us | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | our host | night | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hange | shall · passive | we | for host | tree rules |
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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