Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 108

"I was then," said Conall, "quite a young lad, and I went out hunting, and my father's land was beside the sea, and it was rough with rocks, caves, and rifts.

Who acts: Conall, land · What happens: be, say, go out, rift · To what, where: hunting, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conall, land), 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	_	4 then	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 then	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 then	cop
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lad	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lad	punct
11	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	14 lad	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lad	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lad	amod
14	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 went	compound:prt
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sea	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sea	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 land	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sea	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sea	cop
28	beside	beside	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rough	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rough	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rough	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 rough	cop
35	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 rocks	case
37	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 rough	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 caves	punct
39	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 rocks	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rifts	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rifts	cc
42	rifts	rift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 rough	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Conall			then property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Conall				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go out in a quote	past	Conall	hunting			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	my father's land		the sea		tree rules
5	is in a quote	past	land			with rocks and caves; rough property	tree rules
6	rift in a quote	present	land not said here				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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