Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35

Let a reliquary be formed with cunning workmanship of that gold and silver, dated with my date and signed with my name, to be in memory of my grandmother who gave birth to a lamb, to a salmon, and then to my father, the Ard-Ri’.

Who acts: grandmother, my · What happens: let, form, date, sign, be, give · To what, where: reliquary, memory, birth, lamb

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 (grandmother, my), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 formed	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 reliquary	det
3	reliquary	reliquary	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 formed	aux:pass
5	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 workmanship	case
7	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 workmanship	amod
8	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 formed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 gold	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 workmanship	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 silver	cc
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gold	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dated	punct
15	dated	date	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 formed	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 date	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 date	nmod:poss
18	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dated	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 signed	cc
20	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dated	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 name	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 name	nmod:poss
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 signed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 memory	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	28 memory	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 memory	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 memory	case
28	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 signed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 grandmother	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grandmother	nmod:poss
31	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 memory	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 gave	nsubj
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 grandmother	acl:relcl
34	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 lamb	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lamb	det
37	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 salmon	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 salmon	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 salmon	det
41	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 father	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 father	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 father	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 father	case
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 formed	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Ri	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Ri	det
50	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Ri	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 Ard	punct
52	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 father	appos
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	52 Ri	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		a reliquary				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reliquary=Theme
2	form	infinitive · passive					with cunning workmanship of that gold and silver	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
3	date	participle					with my date	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sign	past					with my name	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with name=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive				memory	of my grandmother	tree rules
6	give	past	my grandmother	birth	a lamb		to a salmon	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to lamb=Recipient
7	name		my					nom name «communication transitive»: 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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