Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 50

“One indeed, my thick-witted, thin-livered Cairell, and I undertake to prove on your hide that what my brother said was true and that what your brother said was false.”

Who acts: Cairell, brother · What happens: liver, undertake, prove, say, be · To what, where: Cairell, hide · 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 (Cairell, brother), 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	_	2 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 One	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 witted	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 witted	nmod:poss
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 witted	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 thick	punct
8	witted	witted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 One	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 livered	punct
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 livered	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 thin	punct
12	livered	liver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 witted	conj
13	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 livered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 undertake	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 undertake	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 undertake	nsubj
17	undertake	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 witted	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 prove	mark
19	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 undertake	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 hide	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hide	nmod:poss
22	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prove	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 true	mark
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 said	obj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 true	csubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 true	cop
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 prove	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 false	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 false	mark
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 false	nsubj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brother	nmod:poss
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 what	acl:relcl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 false	cop
37	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 true	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	liver in a quote	participle		Cairell			tree rules
2	undertake in a quote	present	Cairell				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	prove in a quote	to-infinitive	Cairell not said here		your hide		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	is in a quote	past	Cairell not said here			true property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	your brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	past				false property	tree rules

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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