Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5

He promised if he could not discover her within a certain period that he would deliver his body into Fionn’s hands, and would abide by whatever judgement Fionn might pronounce.

Who acts: demand, Fionn · What happens: promise, not discover, deliver, abide, pronounce · To what, where: girl, body, hands, whatever, judgement

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 (demand, Fionn), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 discover	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 discover	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 discover	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 discover	advmod
7	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 discover	obj
9	within	within	ADP	_	12 period	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 period	det
11	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 period	amod
12	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discover	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 deliver	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deliver	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 deliver	aux
16	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 discover	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deliver	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 hands	case
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hands	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Fionn	case
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 deliver	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 abide	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 abide	cc
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 abide	aux
26	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 whatever	case
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 abide	obj
29	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whatever	nsubj
30	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 pronounce	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pronounce	aux
32	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 judgement	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	demand				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not discover a condition, not said to happen	could	demand	girl		within a certain period	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	deliver	would	demand	demand's body	Fionn's hands		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
4	abide	would	demand not said here	whatever			tree rules
5	pronounce	might	Fionn	judgement not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgement=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.

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