Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 110
"I will do that," says he, "there is but death awaiting me, at any rate."
Who acts: I, death · What happens: do, say, be, await · To what, where: that, me, rate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, death), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 he | parataxis |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 death | cc |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 death | acl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 awaiting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rate | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 rate | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 rate | det |
| 21 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 awaiting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | death | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | await in a quote | gerund | death not said here | me | any rate | 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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