Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", sentence 1
Sorry enough my grandfather was, and he vowed he wouldn't do so again.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: be, vow, not do
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather), 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 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Sorry | advmod |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sorry | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 vowed | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 vowed | nsubj |
| 9 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sorry | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 vowed | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 again | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | my grandfather | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | vow | past | grandfather | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not do | would | grandfather | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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