Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 61

“I told you that the Salmon of Knowledge was to be caught by me, according to the prophecy.”

Who acts: I, me · What happens: tell, catch, accord · To what, where: you, Salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, me), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 caught	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Salmon	det
7	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 caught	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Knowledge	case
9	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Salmon	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 caught	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 caught	aux:pass
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 caught	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prophecy	punct
17	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 prophecy	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 according	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 prophecy	det
20	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	catch not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive	me	the Salmon of Knowledge		accord the prophecy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	accord in a quote	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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