Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 98

Well, I suppose, before they were married, Tom got some man, like Pat Mara of Tomenine, to learn him the "principles of politeness," fluxions, gunnery, and fortification, decimal fractions, practice, and the rule of three direct, the way he'd be able to keep up a conversation with the royal family.

Who acts: I, Tom · What happens: suppose, marry, get, learn, be, keep up · To what, where: Danes, man, Tom, way, conversation · 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 (I, Tom), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 suppose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suppose	nsubj
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 married	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 married	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 married	aux:pass
9	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 got	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Mara	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 Mara	case
17	Pat	Pat	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mara	compound
18	Mara	Mara	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 man	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Tomenine	case
20	Tomenine	Tomenine	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mara	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 learn	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 learn	mark
23	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 learn	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 principles	det
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 principles	punct
27	principles	principle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 learn	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 politeness	case
29	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 principles	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fluxions	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 fluxions	punct
32	fluxions	fluxion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 learn	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gunnery	punct
34	gunnery	gunnery	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fluxions	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fortification	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fortification	cc
37	fortification	fortification	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suppose	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fractions	punct
39	decimal	decimal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fractions	amod
40	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fortification	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 practice	punct
42	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fortification	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 rule	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rule	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 rule	det
46	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suppose	parataxis
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 direct	case
48	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 direct	nummod
49	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 rule	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 way	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 way	det
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rule	appos
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 able	nsubj
54	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 able	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 able	cop
56	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 way	acl:relcl
57	to	to	PART	_	58 keep	mark
58	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 able	xcomp
59	up	up	ADP	_	58 keep	compound:prt
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 conversation	det
61	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 keep	obj
62	with	with	ADP	_	65 family	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 family	det
64	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 family	amod
65	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 conversation	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	marry	past · passive		Danes = dane		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	get	past	Tom	some man		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	learn	to-infinitive	I not said here	Tom	fluxions and gunnery obl	tree rules
5	is	would	Tom	the way not said here	able property	tree rules
6	keep up	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	a conversation	with the royal family	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent conversation=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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