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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 31

“It is best for you to leave us now,” they said to the tall stripling, “for the sons of Morna are watching again to kill you.”

Who acts: tall stripling, guardians, sons · What happens: be, leave, say, watch, kill · To what, where: us, tall stripling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall stripling, guardians, sons), 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

punctexplcopmarknsubjmarkadvclobjadvmodpunctpunctnsubjconjcasedetamodoblpunctpunctcasedetnsubjcasenmodauxadvcladvmodmarkadvclobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTItPRONisAUXbestADJforSCONJyouPRONtoPARTleaveVERBusPRONnowADV,PUNCT”PUNCTtheyPRONsaidVERBtoADPtheDETtallADJstriplingNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTforADPtheDETsonsNOUNofADPMornaPROPNareAUXwatchingVERBagainADVtoPARTkillVERByouPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 bestpunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 bestexpl
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 bestcop
4bestgoodADJDegree=Suprootroot
5forforSCONJ_8 leavemark
6youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs8 leavensubj
7totoPART_8 leavemark
8leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf14 saidadvcl
9uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs8 leaveobj
10nownowADVPronType=Dem8 leaveadvmod
11,,PUNCT_8 leavepunct
12”"PUNCT_8 leavepunct
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 saidnsubj
14saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 bestconj
15totoADP_18 striplingcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 striplingdet
17talltallADJDegree=Pos18 striplingamod
18striplingstriplingNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidobl
19,,PUNCT_27 watchingpunct
20“"PUNCT_27 watchingpunct
21forforADP_23 sonscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 sonsdet
23sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur27 watchingnsubj
24ofofADP_25 Mornacase
25MornaMornaPROPNNumber=Sing23 sonsnmod
26arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 watchingaux
27watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 saidadvcl
28againagainADV_27 watchingadvmod
29totoPART_30 killmark
30killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf27 watchingadvcl
31youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs30 killobj
32..PUNCT_14 saidpunct
33”"PUNCT_4 bestpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepresentgood propertytree rules
2leave in a quoteto-infinitivethe tall stripling = striplingusnowvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3say speech: assertpastguardians = guardianthe tall striplingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to stripling=Recipient
4watch in a quotepresent · progressivethe sons of Mornaagainvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5kill in a quoteto-infinitivethe sons of Morna not said herethe tall stripling = striplingvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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