Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 117

Och!' said I, 'it's not much you will be bettered by me, though you should tear me asunder; I will make but one meal for you.

Who acts: Och, I, me, you · What happens: say, not be, better, tear, make · To what, where: you, me · 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 (Och, I, me, you), 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	Och	och	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Och	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Och	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 much	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 much	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 much	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 much	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 much	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 bettered	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bettered	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 bettered	aux:pass
15	bettered	better	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 much	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bettered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tear	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 tear	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 tear	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tear	aux
22	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bettered	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tear	obj
24	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tear	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 meal	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 meal	nummod
31	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 make	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Och			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	I		much property	tree rules
3	better	future · passive	me	you		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
4	tear	should	you	me		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient asunder=Result
5	make	future	I		for you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary

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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