Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 64

But I did not tell you that the salmon was not to be eaten by me, although that also was in the prophecy, and that omission was the lie.”

Who acts: I, me, that, omission · What happens: not tell, not eat, be · To what, where: you, salmon, prophecy, lie · 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, that, omission), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 eaten	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salmon	det
9	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eaten	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	14 eaten	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 eaten	aux:pass
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tell	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prophecy	punct
18	although	although	SCONJ	_	24 prophecy	mark
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 prophecy	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	24 prophecy	advmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 prophecy	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 prophecy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prophecy	det
24	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lie	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lie	cc
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 omission	det
28	omission	omission	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lie	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lie	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lie	det
31	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	not eat	past · passive	me	the salmon			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	is	past	that			the prophecy	tree rules
4	is a	past	that omission	the lie			tree rules

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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