Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 25

I’d do more than that for Fionn.”

Who acts: I · What happens: have, do · To what, where: more

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ’d	nsubj
2	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ’d	xcomp
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 do	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 more	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Fionn	case
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’d	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I						tree rules
2	do	infinitive	I not said here	more				for Fionn	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality

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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