Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 116
Conall, it's long since my knife has been rusting in my pouch waiting for thy tender flesh.' '
Who acts: Conall, knife, pouch · What happens: be, rust, wait · To what, where: pouch
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, knife, pouch), 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 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Conall | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 rusting | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rusting | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rusting | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 rusting | aux |
| 11 | rusting | rust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 long | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pouch | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rusting | obl |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 pouch | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 flesh | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flesh | amod |
| 19 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waiting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Conall | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rust | present · perfect · progressive | my knife | my pouch | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | my pouch not said here | for thy tender flesh | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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