Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 18

When every creature and bird was gathering to battle, the son of the king of Tethertown said that he would go to see the battle, and that he would bring sure word home to his father the king, who would be king of the creatures this year.

Who acts: creature, son, king · What happens: gather, battle, say, go, see, bring · To what, where: battle, sure word home, king · 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 (creature, son, king), 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	7 gathering	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathering	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bird	cc
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathering	aux
7	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 battle	mark
9	battle	battle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gathering	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gathering	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Tethertown	case
17	Tethertown	Tethertown	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 king	nmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 battle	det
26	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bring	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 bring	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bring	aux
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 home	amod
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 home	compound
35	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 father	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 king	det
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 king	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 king	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 king	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 king	cop
45	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 king	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 creatures	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 creatures	det
48	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 king	nmod
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 year	det
50	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obl:unmarked
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past · progressive	every creature and bird				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	battle	to-infinitive	every creature and bird not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the son of the king of Tethertown				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	would	son				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	to-infinitive	son not said here	the battle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer battle=Stimulus
6	bring	would	son	sure word home	year	to son's father	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument home=Theme king=Destination
7	is a	would	the king	king		of the creatures	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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