Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 89

When he had said that, one of them went up in the tree, and as he was coming where I was, I drew a weapon that I had and I killed him. '

Who acts: cat, one, I · What happens: say, go up, come, be, draw, have · To what, where: weapon, cat · 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 (cat, one, I), 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 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 went	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coming	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 coming	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 coming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 went	advcl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 was	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 was	nsubj
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drew	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 weapon	det
28	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 had	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 weapon	acl:relcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 killed	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 killed	nsubj
34	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 killed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go up	past	one of places		in the tree	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tree=Attribute
3	come	past · progressive	cat			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	draw	past	I	a weapon		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
6	have	past	I	a weapon		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
7	kill	past	I	cat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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