Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 22
The miller spoke to his gillies, and he said to them to do this, and they put them in five sacks.
Who acts: miller, plan, gillies · What happens: speak, say, do, put · To what, where: gillies, this, sons, five sacks · 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 (miller, plan, gillies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miller | det |
| 2 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gillies | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gillies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sacks | case |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sacks | nummod |
| 23 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the miller | to plan's gillies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to gillie=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | plan | gillies = gillie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | put | past | gillies = gillie | sons = son | five sacks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in sack=Destination |
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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