Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 129
He cried, 'I do believe that thou art killing my buck.'
Who acts: leech, I · What happens: cry, believe, kill · To what, where: buck · 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 (leech, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 art | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 art | nsubj |
| 10 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 art | xcomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 buck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | leech | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | I not said here | my buck | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=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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