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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 38

“By my hand,” Goll replied, “if Fionn were to treat me as his father did I would treat Fionn the way I treated Fionn’s father.”

Who acts: Goll, Fionn, father · What happens: reply, treat · To what, where: Goll, Fionn, way, father · 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 (Goll, Fionn, father), 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

punctcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctmarknsubjauxmarkparataxisobjmarknmod:possnsubjauxnsubjauxadvclobjdetobl:unmarkednsubjacl:relclnmod:posscaseobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTByADPmyPRONhandNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTGollPROPNrepliedVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTifSCONJFionnPROPNwereAUXtoPARTtreatVERBmePRONasSCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNdidAUXIPRONwouldAUXtreatVERBFionnPROPNtheDETwayNOUNIPRONtreatedVERBFionnPROPN’sPARTfatherNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_8 repliedpunct
2BybyADP_4 handcase
3mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 handnmod:poss
4handhandNOUNNumber=Sing8 repliedobl
5,,PUNCT_4 handpunct
6”"PUNCT_4 handpunct
7GollGollPROPNNumber=Sing8 repliednsubj
8repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9,,PUNCT_15 treatpunct
10“"PUNCT_15 treatpunct
11ififSCONJ_15 treatmark
12FionnFionnPROPNNumber=Sing15 treatnsubj
13werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 treataux
14totoPART_15 treatmark
15treattreatVERBVerbForm=Inf8 repliedparataxis
16meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 treatobj
17asasSCONJ_23 treatmark
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 fathernmod:poss
19fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing23 treatnsubj
20diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 treataux
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs23 treatnsubj
22wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin23 treataux
23treattreatVERBVerbForm=Inf15 treatadvcl
24FionnFionnPROPNNumber=Sing23 treatobj
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 waydet
26waywayNOUNNumber=Sing23 treatobl:unmarked
27IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 treatednsubj
28treatedtreatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 wayacl:relcl
29FionnFionnPROPNNumber=Sing31 fathernmod:poss
30’s'sPART_29 Fionncase
31fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing28 treatedobj
32..PUNCT_8 repliedpunct
33”"PUNCT_8 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastGollby my handvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2treat a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepastFionnGollvn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3treat in a quotewould · past · do-supportFionn's fatherFionnthe way obl:unmarkedvn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fionn=Recipient
4treat in a quotepastGollthe way not said hereFionn's fathervn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient

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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