Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 37
“Make your choice,” said Conn to Goll Mor; “you will leave Ireland, or you will place your hand in the hand of this champion and be his man.”
Who acts: Conn, Goll · What happens: make, say, leave, place, be · To what, where: choice, Goll, Ireland, hand, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, Goll), 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 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 choice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Goll | case |
| 10 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Goll | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | aux |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 place | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 place | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | aux |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | appos |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 champion | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 champion | det |
| 30 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hand | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 man | cc |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 man | cop |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 man | nmod:poss |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | your choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Conn | Goll | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to goll=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | future | Goll | Ireland | the hand of this champion | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | place in a quote | future | Goll | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Goll not said here | Ireland's man | 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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