Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 69

When they had sung the cronan, said the head bard, 'Now, O Conall, pay the reward of the cronan that the cats have sung to thee.' '

Who acts: reward · What happens: sing, say, pay, reward · To what, where: cows, head bard, reward, cats, thee, cronan · 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 (reward), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sung	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sung	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sung	aux
4	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cronan	det
6	cronan	cronan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sung	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sung	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bard	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bard	compound
11	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
14	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 pay	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Now	punct
16	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	17 Conall	case
17	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Conall	punct
19	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 bard	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reward	det
21	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cronan	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cronan	det
24	cronan	cronan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reward	nmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 sung	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cats	det
27	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sung	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sung	aux
29	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 reward	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 thee	case
31	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 sung	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 bard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · perfect · passive		cows = cow				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cronan=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the head bard				tree rules
3	pay	infinitive		the reward of the cronan		now	of Conall	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Asset
4	sing speech: express	present · perfect · passive	the reward of the cronan not said here	the cats	thee			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to thou=Recipient
5	reward			the cronan				nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient

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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