Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 41

He will rove unless you tie him to a post, and he will whistle then.

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: rove, tie, whistle · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rove	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rove	aux
3	rove	rove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 tie	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tie	nsubj
6	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rove	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tie	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 post	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 post	det
10	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whistle	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whistle	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whistle	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 whistle	aux
15	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rove	conj
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 whistle	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rove	future	boy				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tie a condition, not said to happen	present	you	boy		to a post	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to post=Co-Patient
3	whistle	future	boy		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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