Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 48
“That was your right, and I swear by my hand that if the man you desire is alive and unmarried he shall marry you or he will answer to me for the refusal.”
Who acts: That, Fionn, you, hand, Man · What happens: be, swear, desire, unmarry, marry, answer · To what, where: right, man, you, Fionn · 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 (That, Fionn, you, hand), 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 | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 right | nmod:poss |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swear | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swear | nsubj |
| 9 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swear | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 alive | nsubj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 alive | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 alive | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 desire | nsubj |
| 18 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 alive | cop |
| 20 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 unmarried | cc |
| 22 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 alive | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | aux |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unmarried | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 answer | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 answer | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | aux |
| 30 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 marry | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 answer | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 refusal | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 refusal | det |
| 35 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 answer | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | your right | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | Fionn | your right not said here | by my hand | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | desire in a quote | present | you | the man not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my hand | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | unmarry in a quote | past | my hand not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | marry in a quote | shall | Man | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 7 | answer speech: assert in a quote | future | Man | Fionn | for the refusal | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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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