Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 76
I am tired myself of yourselves and your rewards,' said I. 'I have no reward for you unless you take that cow down there.'
Who acts: I, I., you, your · What happens: be, say, have, take, reward · To what, where: reward, cow · 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, I., you, your), 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 | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 tired | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 yourselves | case |
| 6 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 myself | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rewards | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rewards | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 myself | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | conj |
| 13 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 I. | case |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 reward | det |
| 18 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 reward | nmod |
| 21 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 cow | det |
| 25 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 there | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 take | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | myself obl; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | no reward | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient | |||
| 4 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | that cow | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination | |||
| 5 | reward | your | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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