Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 95

Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity--let us move.'

Who acts: priest, man, us · What happens: say, be, let, move · To what, where: priest, man, extremity, us · 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 (priest, man, us), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Certainly	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 extremity	case
14	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 man	acl:relcl
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the priest		certainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent priest=Topic
2	is a	present	priest	a man	extremity		tree rules
3	let	infinitive	a man not said here	us			tree rules
4	move	infinitive	us not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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