Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 156

When you come to the earth, arrange my bones together, put the flesh over them, sprinkle it with water from the spring, and I shall be alive before you.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, arrange, put, sprinkle, be · To what, where: earth, bones, flesh

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 (you, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 arrange	punct
8	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bones	nmod:poss
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 arrange	obj
11	together	together	ADV	_	8 arrange	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 arrange	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flesh	det
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sprinkle	punct
19	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sprinkle	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprinkle	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 spring	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spring	det
25	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprinkle	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 alive	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 alive	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 alive	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 alive	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 alive	cop
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 come	conj
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 alive	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	you		the earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location
2	arrange	infinitive	you not said here	my bones			together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Product
3	put	infinitive	you not said here	the flesh			over bones = bone	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme over they=Destination
4	sprinkle	infinitive	you not said here	flesh		spring	with water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme
5	is	shall	I			before you	alive property	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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