Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 59
“I do not want you killed under my protection,” he explained, or complained.
Who acts: father, you, my · What happens: not want, kill, explain, complain, protect · To what, where: you, protection · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 explained | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 protection | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 protection | nmod:poss |
| 10 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 explained | nsubj |
| 14 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 complained | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 complained | cc |
| 17 | complained | complain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 explained | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | father | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | participle | you not said here | my protection | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | complain speech: other | participle | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | protect in a quote | my | nom protection «act 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: «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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