Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 92

"There was in the neighbourhood of the wood a priest, and he had ten men with him delving, and he said, 'There is a shout of a man in extremity and I must not be without replying to it.'

Who acts: cat, ten men, shout · What happens: be, have, delve, say, not be, shout · To what, where: neighbourhood, ten men, shout, man · 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, ten men, shout), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 neighbourhood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neighbourhood	det
6	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 neighbourhood	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 priest	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
16	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 men	nummod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 men	nmod
20	delving	delve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 men	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 is	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 is	punct
27	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 is	expl
28	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shout	det
30	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 is	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 man	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shout	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 extremity	case
35	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 replying	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 replying	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 replying	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 replying	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 replying	cop
41	without	without	SCONJ	_	42 replying	mark
42	replying	reply	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 shout	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 replying	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 is	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	past				the neighbourhood of the wood a priest; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location
2	have in a quote	past	cat	ten men			with man	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	delve in a quote	gerund	ten men not said here					vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be in a quote	present	a shout of a man in extremity			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is in a quote	must	cat		shout		reply property	tree rules
7	shout in a quote			a man in extremity				nom shout «communication 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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