Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 27

“And now,” said Finnian, “you will be born again, for I shall baptize you into the family of the Living God.” ---- So far the story of Tuan, the son of Cairill.

Who acts: Finnian · What happens: say, bear, baptize · To what, where: you, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 born	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 born	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 born	nsubj:pass
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 born	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 baptize	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 baptize	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 baptize	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 baptize	aux
19	baptize	baptize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 born	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 baptize	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 family	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 family	det
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 baptize	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 God	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 God	det
26	Living	Living	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 God	compound
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 family	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 baptize	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 baptize	punct
30	----	----	PUNCT	_	34 story	punct
31	So	so	ADV	_	32 far	advmod
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 story	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 story	det
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Tuan	case
36	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 story	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 son	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 son	det
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Tuan	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Cairill	case
41	Cairill	Cairill	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 son	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Finnian			now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bear in a quote	future · passive		you		again	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	baptize in a quote	shall	Finnian	you	the family of the Living God		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Result

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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