Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 93

And the wisest of the men said, 'Let it alone till we hear it again.'

Who acts: wisest, we · What happens: say, let, hear · To what, where: shout · 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 (wisest, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wisest	det
3	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wisest	obl
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
10	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Let	obj
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 Let	advmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 hear	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Let	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 hear	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wisest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		shout		alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hear	present	we	shout	again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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