Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 27

“Since I left my own country I have not gone from a land or an island until it paid tribute to me and acknowledged my lordship.”

Who acts: man, land · What happens: leave, not go, pay, acknowledge · To what, where: own country, land, tribute, man, lordship

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, land), 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	_	4 left	punct
2	Since	since	SCONJ	_	4 left	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 country	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 gone	advmod
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 left	parataxis
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 island	cc
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 land	conj
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 paid	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 paid	nsubj
20	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	advcl
21	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 paid	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 acknowledged	cc
25	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 paid	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lordship	nmod:poss
27	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 acknowledged	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past	the man = man	my own country			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
2	not go in a quote	present · perfect	the man = man			a land or a island	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location
3	pay in a quote	past	land	tribute	the man = man		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset
4	acknowledge in a quote	past	land not said here	my lordship			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lordship=Topic

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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