Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

“Go,” he would say, “and find out if the worshipper of new gods has taken himself away.”

Who acts: you, servant · What happens: go, say, find out, take away · To what, where: worshipper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, servant), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 find	compound:prt
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 taken	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 worshipper	det
15	worshipper	worshipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 gods	case
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gods	amod
18	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worshipper	nmod
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 find	advcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 taken	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 taken	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	would	servant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find out in a quote	infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	take away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the worshipper of new gods	away 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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