Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 2
And if the whole barony knew him, he knew the whole barony, every inch, hill and dale, bog and pasture, field and covert.
Who acts: whole barony, barony · What happens: know · To what, where: grandfather, whole barony
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole barony, barony), 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 | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 knew | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barony | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 barony | amod |
| 5 | barony | barony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 barony | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 barony | amod |
| 13 | barony | barony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inch | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 inch | det |
| 16 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 barony | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hill | punct |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 barony | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dale | cc |
| 20 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hill | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bog | punct |
| 22 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 barony | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pasture | cc |
| 24 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bog | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 field | punct |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 barony | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 covert | cc |
| 28 | covert | covert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 field | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | the whole barony | grandfather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | barony | the whole barony and every inch and hill and dale and bog and pasture and field and covert | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer barony=Stimulus |
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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