Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 7

And because we have our homes in the round green hills, men call us the Hill Folk."

Who acts: we, men · What happens: have, call · To what, where: homes, round green hills, us · 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 (we, men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 call	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 call	advcl
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 homes	nmod:poss
6	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 hills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hills	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hills	amod
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 call	nsubj
14	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 call	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Folk	det
17	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Folk	compound
18	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 call	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 call	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	we	our homes		the round green hills			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	call	present	men		us				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

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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