Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 72
“Let you now eat up the fish, and I shall watch you and give praise to the gods of the Underworld and of the Elements.”
Who acts: you, resolute · What happens: let, eat up, watch, give · To what, where: fish, you, praise, gods · 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 (you, resolute), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 eat | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watch | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 watch | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 watch | aux |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 watch | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 watch | conj |
| 17 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Underworld | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Underworld | det |
| 23 | Underworld | Underworld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gods | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Elements | cc |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Elements | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Elements | det |
| 27 | Elements | Element | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 Underworld | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | present | you | the fish | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | |||
| 3 | watch in a quote | shall | the resolute = resolute | you | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | the resolute = resolute not said here | praise | the gods of the Underworld and the Elements | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent praise=Theme to god=Recipient |
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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