Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 9
So when he got up quite close to him, "God bless your work, neighbour," said Tom.
Who acts: Tom, God, your · What happens: get up, bless, say, work · To what, where: work · 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 (Tom, God, your), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bless | nsubj |
| 13 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bless | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 neighbour | punct |
| 17 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Tom | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bless in a quote | infinitive | God | your work and neighbour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | work in a quote | your | nom work «act 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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