Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 1

It's hard for a man to jump when he has been through all my grandfather had, but jump he did.

Who acts: man, grandfather · What happens: be, jump, have, do

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! 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 (man, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hard	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 jump	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 jump	mark
8	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	csubj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 has	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 jump	ccomp
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 had	cop
13	through	through	ADP	_	17 had	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 grandfather	det:predet
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grandfather	nmod:poss
16	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 has	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jump	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 jump	cc
20	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jump	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		hard property	tree rules
2	jump	to-infinitive	a man		tree rules
3	have	present	man		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle	my grandfather	have property	tree rules
5	jump	infinitive			tree rules
6	do	past	man		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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