Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 79

“You have eaten one,” cried the blithe poet, “and if you make such a promise it will be because you know.”

Who acts: You, blithe poet, promise · What happens: eat, cry, make, be · To what, where: one, promise · 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, blithe poet, promise), 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	_	4 eaten	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	parataxis
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eaten	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poet	det
10	blithe	blithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poet	amod
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 make	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
17	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 promise	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 promise	det
20	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 know	cop
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 know	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 promise	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present · perfect	You	one		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	the blithe poet			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	such promise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
4	is in a quote	future	promise		know property	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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