Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11

He is Fionn’s poet, and will tell no lie against his master; he is a poet, and will tell no lie against any one.”

Who acts: Goll · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: poet, lie · 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 (Goll), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poet	cop
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poet	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Fionn	case
5	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 poet	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 lie	det
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 master	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 poet	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 poet	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 poet	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 poet	det
19	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 lie	det
25	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poet	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 poet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Goll	Fionn's poet		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future		no lie	against Goll's master	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
3	is a	present	Goll	a poet		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	future		no lie	against any one	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=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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