Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 61

I was once a young lad, and my father had much land, and he had parks of year-old cows, and one of them had just calved, and my father told me to bring her home.

Who acts: I, father · What happens: be, have, calve, tell, bring · To what, where: young lad, much land, parks, one, me, home · 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 (I, father), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lad	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lad	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lad	amod
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	parataxis
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 land	amod
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
18	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 cows	case
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 old	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 year	punct
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cows	amod
23	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 parks	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 calved	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 calved	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 calved	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 calved	aux
30	just	just	ADV	_	31 calved	advmod
31	calved	calve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 had	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 told	cc
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	nsubj
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 calved	conj
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 told	iobj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 bring	mark
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 told	xcomp
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 home	nmod:poss
41	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bring	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a young lad		once property	tree rules
2	have	past	my father	much land			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
3	have	past	father	parks of old cows			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Patient
4	calve	past · perfect · passive		one of cows			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	my father		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	my father not said here	Erin's home			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=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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