Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 63
Deuce run to Lusk wid 'em! and if any one can save us from 'em, it is this gentleman with the goat-skin.
Who acts: one, run · What happens: save, be · To what, where: us, gentleman
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 (one, run), 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 | Deuce | deuce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 run | compound |
| 2 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 'em | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 wid | case |
| 4 | Lusk | Lusk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wid | compound |
| 5 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 run | nmod |
| 6 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 'em | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 save | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 save | mark |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 save | aux |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 'em | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 save | iobj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 'em | case |
| 16 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 save | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gentleman | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gentleman | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gentleman | cop |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 gentleman | det |
| 21 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 skin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 skin | det |
| 24 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skin | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 goat | punct |
| 26 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gentleman | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 'em | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | can | any one | us | from 'em = they | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent we=Theme from they=Source | |||
| 2 | is a | present | run | this gentleman | with the goat skin | 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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