Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 49
Every one knew Conall, for he was a valued tenant of the king of Erin, and when the king brought them up out of the holes he said, "Oh, Conall, is it you that are here?"
Who acts: one, Conall, king, it, that · What happens: know, value, be, bring up, say · To what, where: Conall, tracks, holes, you · 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 (one, Conall, king, it), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tenant | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 tenant | case |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tenant | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tenant | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tenant | det |
| 10 | valued | value | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tenant | amod |
| 11 | tenant | tenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tenant | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Erin | case |
| 16 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 brought | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 holes | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 holes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 holes | det |
| 28 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Conall | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Conall | punct |
| 33 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 35 Conall | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Oh | punct |
| 35 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 said | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 you | punct |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 you | cop |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 you | nsubj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 Conall | appos |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 here | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 here | cop |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 you | ccomp |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 Conall | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | every one | Conall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer conall=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | value | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Conall | for a valued tenant; of the king of Erin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring up | past | the king | tracks = track | the holes | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | it | you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | that | here property | 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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