Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 12
"That's my own business, not yours," was the reply.
Who acts: That, own business · What happens: be · To what, where: own business, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, own business), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 business | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 business | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 business | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 business | amod |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reply | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 yours | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 yours | advmod |
| 9 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 business | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reply | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reply | det |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | my own business | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | my own business | the reply | 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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