Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 28

“Give me your pledge,” said Uct Dealv, “that if I save you from this danger you will keep me as your sweetheart until the end of life and time.”

Who acts: Uct, you, your · What happens: give, say, save, keep, pledge · To what, where: pledge, Uct, you, danger · 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 (Uct, you, your), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pledge	nmod:poss
5	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Uct	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 save	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 save	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 save	nsubj
16	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 save	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 danger	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 danger	det
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 save	obl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 keep	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 sweetheart	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sweetheart	nmod:poss
27	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
28	until	until	ADP	_	30 end	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 life	case
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive		your pledge	Uct				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pledge=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Uct						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	save a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Uct	you		this danger			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from danger=Source
4	keep in a quote	future	you	Uct			until the end of life and time	as your sweetheart	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	pledge in a quote		your						nom pledge «possession transitive»: poss=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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