Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 82

Pay now their reward, said the head bard; and for sure, oh king, I had no reward for them; and I said to them, 'I have no reward for you.'

Who acts: you, reward, I, care · What happens: pay, say, have, reward · To what, where: reward, head bard, care · 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, reward, I, care), 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	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Pay	advmod
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 reward	nmod:poss
4	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pay	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reward	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bard	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bard	compound
9	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sure	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 sure	case
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pay	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 king	punct
15	oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 king	discourse
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sure	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 king	acl:relcl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 reward	det
21	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reward	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pay	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 reward	det
35	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 have	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pay	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	care's reward		now		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past	care's reward not said here	the head bard				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bard=Topic
3	have	past	I	no reward			for care	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	I		care			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	have	present	I	no reward			for you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
6	reward		care					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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