Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19
He bound Iollan to return the lady if there should be occasion to think her unhappy, and Iollan agreed to do so.
Who acts: Fionn, Iollan · What happens: bind, return, think, agree, do · To what, where: Iollan, lady
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, Iollan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bound | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 return | mark |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bound | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 return | advcl |
| 12 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 occasion | acl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 unhappy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 think | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 agreed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 agreed | cc |
| 19 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 agreed | nsubj |
| 20 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bound | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 agreed | xcomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | Fionn | Iollan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | the lady | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | Iollan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Iollan not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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