Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11

Tell me your genealogy first, and by what descent you occupy these lands and stronghold, and then I will examine your acts and your conscience.”

Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: tell, occupy, examine, act · To what, where: genealogy, me, lands, acts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 genealogy	nmod:poss
4	genealogy	genealogy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Tell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 occupy	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 occupy	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 descent	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 descent	nsubj
10	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 occupy	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 occupy	nsubj
12	occupy	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 lands	det
14	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 occupy	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stronghold	cc
16	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lands	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 examine	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 examine	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 examine	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 examine	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 examine	aux
22	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 occupy	conj
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 acts	nmod:poss
24	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 examine	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 conscience	cc
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 conscience	nmod:poss
27	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 acts	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	your genealogy	me		first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient genealogy=Topic
2	occupy	present	you	this lands and stronghold			by descent	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer
3	examine	future	I	your acts and your conscience		then		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme
4	act		your					nom act «communication intransitive»: 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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