Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 55
Musha, by my soul," says he, "but ye're merry enough, and I'll follow ye."
Who acts: Musha, ye, I · What happens: say, be, follow · To what, where: moon, ye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musha, ye, I), 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 | Musha | Musha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Musha | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 soul | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 soul | nmod:poss |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 soul | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 merry | cc |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 merry | nsubj |
| 14 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 merry | cop |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 merry | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 follow | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 follow | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 follow | aux |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 follow | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 follow | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Musha | moon | by my soul | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | ye | enough, merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | future | I | ye | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=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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