Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 27
It is a sister of mine that makes her dwelling in it; and I will go bail that you are welcome.
Who acts: house, that, I, bail · What happens: be, make, dwell, go · To what, where: sister, blow, house, bail
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 (house, that, I, bail), 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 | 4 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sister | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sister | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 makes | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dwelling | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 makes | conj |
| 18 | bail | bail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 welcome | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 welcome | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 welcome | cop |
| 22 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bail | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | house | a sister | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | that | blow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | that not said here | house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | future | I | bail | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | bail | welcome 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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