Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 14

I must keep my vow: it is to me even as a covenant with God Himself."

Who acts: I, vow, my · What happens: keep, be, vow · To what, where: vow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, vow, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vow	nmod:poss
5	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 me	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 me	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 me	cop
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 keep	advcl
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 covenant	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 covenant	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 covenant	det
14	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 Himself	case
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Himself	compound
17	Himself	Himself	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 covenant	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	must	I	my vow	as a covenant with God Himself	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme
2	is	present	vow		to me	tree rules
3	vow		my			nom vow «communication 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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