Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 21
May the gods protect my going as they protected my coming,” said the robber piously.
Who acts: gods, my · What happens: protect, go, come, say · To what, where: robber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods, 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 protect | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gods | det |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protect | nsubj |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 protected | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 protected | nsubj |
| 9 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | ccomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 protected | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 protected | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 protect | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 robber | det |
| 16 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | piously | piously | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | may | the gods | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | my | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | protect | past | gods = god | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | come | gerund | my | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the gods not said here | the robber | piously 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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