Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 7

“Tell the wife-loser that I will have the girl or I will have his head,” said Fionn.

Who acts: wife loser, Fionn · What happens: tell, have, say · To what, where: wife loser, girl, head · 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 (wife loser, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loser	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loser	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 have	nsubj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loser	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the wife loser	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent loser=Recipient
2	have in a quote	future	the wife loser	the girl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	have in a quote	future	Fionn	demand's head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Fionn		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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