Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 67
Strike up with you,' said the head bard, 'why should we be still? and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw.'
Who acts: you, we · What happens: strike up, say, be, sing · To what, where: head bard, cronan, Conall · 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 (you, we), 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 | Strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Strike | compound:prt |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Strike | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Strike | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bard | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bard | compound |
| 10 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 still | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 still | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 still | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 still | aux |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 still | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 still | cop |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sing | cc |
| 20 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Strike | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cronan | det |
| 22 | cronan | cronan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sing | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Conall | case |
| 24 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cronan | nmod |
| 25 | Yellowclaw | Yellowclaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Conall | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike up | imperative | you not said here | with you | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with you=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the head bard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bard=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | should | we | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | a cronan | Conall | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cronan=Topic to conall=Recipient |
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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