Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 13
Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr. Nutt's references, MacInnes' _Tales_, 477; to which add the case in "Lough Neagh," Yeats, _Irish Folk-Tales_, p. 210).
Who acts: Red haired men, rogues, Nutt, MacInnes · What happens: be, see, add, refer, tell · To what, where: rogues, references, case, Lough · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. 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 (Red haired men, rogues, Nutt, MacInnes), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Red | punct |
| 3 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rogues | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Ireland | case |
| 6 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 men | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 elsewhere | cc |
| 8 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 4 men | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rogues | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 rogues | advmod |
| 11 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rogues | acl |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 references | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Nutt | case |
| 17 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tales | punct |
| 19 | MacInnes | MacInnes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 MacInnes | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tales | punct |
| 22 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 references | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 477 | punct |
| 25 | 477 | 477 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 see | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 add | punct |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 add | obl |
| 29 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 case | det |
| 31 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 add | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Lough | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Lough | punct |
| 34 | Lough | Lough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 add | obl |
| 35 | Neagh | Neagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Lough | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Yeats | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Yeats | punct |
| 38 | Yeats | yeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Lough | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Tales | punct |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 Tales | punct |
| 41 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Tales | amod |
| 42 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Tales | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Folk | punct |
| 44 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 add | parataxis |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 Tales | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 p. | punct |
| 47 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Tales | appos |
| 48 | 210 | 210 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 p. | flat |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 p. | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rogues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Red haired men in Ireland | rogues | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | rogues not said here | Nutt Mr.'s references and MacInnes's Tales | 477 obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reference=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | infinitive | rogues not said here | the case | Lough and Yeats | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent case=Patient to which=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | refer | Nutt Mr. | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | tell | MacInnes | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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