Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 32

“Go you away,” said Fergus to Uct Dealv, “and when you have killed the dog come back to me and I will give you a present.”

Who acts: Fergus · What happens: go away, say, kill, come back, give · To what, where: Uct, Fergus, present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus), 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	7 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Go	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Uct	case
10	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Uct	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 killed	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 killed	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 killed	obj
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 killed	xcomp
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 killed	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 present	det
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go away in a quote	infinitive		Uct		away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fergus		Uct		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to uct=Recipient clause=Topic
3	kill in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Uct			tree rules
4	come back in a quote	infinitive			Fergus		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
5	give in a quote	future	Fergus	a present	Uct		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient present=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/30/32/