Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 39

Another took his place, and another, and another, and then half a dozen at once, and Tom sent swords, helmets, shields, and bodies, rolling over and over, and themselves bawling out that they were kilt, and disabled, and damaged, and rubbing their poor elbows and hips, and limping away.

Who acts: Another, Tom, swords, rubbing · What happens: take, send, roll, bawl out, be, disable · To what, where: place, swords, kilt, poor elbows

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Another, Tom, swords, rubbing), 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	Another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 place	nmod:poss
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 another	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 another	cc
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 took	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 another	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 another	cc
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 another	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dozen	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dozen	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 dozen	advmod
14	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	16 dozen	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dozen	det
16	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 took	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 dozen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sent	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sent	cc
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sent	nsubj
22	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
23	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sent	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 helmets	punct
25	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swords	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shields	punct
27	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swords	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bodies	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bodies	cc
30	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sent	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rolling	punct
32	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sent	advcl
33	over	over	ADV	_	32 rolling	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 over	cc
35	over	over	ADV	_	33 over	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bawling	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bawling	cc
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 bawling	nsubj
39	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 bawling	compound:prt
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 kilt	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 kilt	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 kilt	cop
44	kilt	kilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bawling	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 disabled	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 disabled	cc
47	disabled	disable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 damaged	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 damaged	cc
50	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 disabled	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 limping	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 limping	cc
53	rubbing	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 limping	csubj
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 elbows	nmod:poss
55	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 elbows	amod
56	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 rubbing	obj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 hips	cc
58	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 elbows	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 limping	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 limping	cc
61	limping	limp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
62	away	away	ADV	_	61 limping	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	Another	Tom's place	half dozen obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	send	past	Tom	swords and helmets and shields	bodies obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	roll	gerund	Tom not said here		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bawl out speech: other	gerund	swords = sword			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	swords = sword	kilt		tree rules
6	disable	past				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
7	damage	participle				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	rub	gerund		swords's poor elbows and hips		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme
9	limp away	gerund	rubbing		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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