Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 43
“You will protect me,” she implored.
Who acts: You, enemy · What happens: protect, implore · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, enemy), 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 | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 protect | aux |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 implored | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 protect | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 implored | nsubj |
| 9 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect in a quote | future | You | voice | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | implore | past | enemy | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP 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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