Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 15

“By my hand,” she cried, “I will give you no blessing, for it was no blessing you left with me when we parted.”

Who acts: Breaker, blessing, you, we · What happens: cry, give, be, leave, part · To what, where: blessing, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Breaker, blessing, you, we), 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	_	8 cried	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 blessing	det
16	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blessing	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 blessing	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blessing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blessing	cop
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 blessing	det
22	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blessing	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 left	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 parted	advmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 parted	nsubj
29	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Breaker			by my hand	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location
2	give in a quote	future	Breaker	no blessing	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient blessing=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	blessing			for no blessing	tree rules
4	leave in a quote	past	you	no blessing not said here		with Breaker	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient with i=Theme
5	part in a quote	past	we				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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