Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 57

So Tom put his flute in his pocket, and says he to the baste that was sittin' on his currabingo ready to faint, "Walk off to your mountain, my fine fellow, and live like a respectable baste; and if ever I find you come within seven miles of any town, I'll--"

Who acts: Tom, baste, you · What happens: put, say, be, faint, walk off, live · To what, where: flute, pocket, Tom, currabingo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tom, baste, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flute	nmod:poss
5	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 baste	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 baste	det
15	baste	baste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sittin	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sittin	cop
18	sittin	sittin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 baste	acl:relcl
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 sittin	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 currabingo	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 currabingo	nmod:poss
22	currabingo	currabingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sittin	obl
23	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 currabingo	amod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 faint	mark
25	faint	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ready	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Walk	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Walk	punct
28	Walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 Walk	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mountain	nmod:poss
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Walk	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fellow	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fellow	nmod:poss
35	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fellow	amod
36	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Walk	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 live	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 live	cc
39	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Walk	conj
40	like	like	ADP	_	43 baste	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 baste	det
42	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 baste	amod
43	baste	baste	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 live	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 find	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 find	cc
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 ever	mark
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 find	advmod
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 find	nsubj
49	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 come	nsubj
51	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 find	ccomp
52	within	within	ADP	_	54 miles	case
53	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 miles	nummod
54	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 come	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 town	case
56	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	57 town	det
57	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 miles	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 'll	punct
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 'll	nsubj
60	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 put	advcl
61	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Tom	Tom's flute	Tom's pocket			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme in pocket=Destination
2	say speech: assert	present	Tom not said here	Tom			to the baste	tree rules
3	is	past	the baste		Tom's currabingo		sittin property	tree rules
4	faint	to-infinitive	the baste not said here					vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	walk off in a quote	infinitive					to your mountain	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live in a quote	infinitive					like a respectable baste	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find in a quote	present	Tom			ever		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	come in a quote	present	you				within seven miles of any town	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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