Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 150

And the ring said, 'I am here,' though it was on the bed of ocean.

Who acts: ring, I, finger · What happens: say, be · To what, where: bed · 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 (ring, I, finger), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 here	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 here	cop
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bed	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 bed	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 bed	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bed	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 ocean	case
19	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bed	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the ring			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I		here property	tree rules
3	is	past	finger	the bed	of ocean	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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