Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 27

“While I am away you may roast the salmon, so that it will be ready against my return.”

Who acts: Fionn, you, succession, my · What happens: be, roast, return · To what, where: salmon

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, you, succession, 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	_	8 roast	punct
2	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 away	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 away	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
5	away	away	ADV	_	8 roast	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 roast	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 roast	aux
8	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 salmon	det
10	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roast	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ready	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 ready	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ready	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 ready	cop
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roast	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 return	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 return	nmod:poss
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ready	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 roast	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 roast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Fionn		away property	tree rules
2	roast in a quote	may	you	the salmon		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent salmon=Patient
3	is in a quote	future	succession		against my return; ready property	tree rules
4	return in a quote		my			nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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