Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 52

“And during my absence,” Fionn continued, “I leave this as a compact, that you make friends with the Fianna here present, and that you observe all the conditions and ceremonies of friendship.”

Who acts: Fionn, Cael, you, my · What happens: continue, leave, make, observe, absent · To what, where: this, friends, conditions

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 (Fionn, Cael, you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 absence	cc
3	during	during	ADP	_	5 absence	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 absence	nmod:poss
5	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 absence	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 absence	punct
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leave	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 leave	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 leave	nsubj
13	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 leave	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 compact	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 compact	det
17	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	conj
22	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 Fianna	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fianna	det
25	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 make	obl
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 make	advmod
27	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 make	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 observe	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 observe	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 observe	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 observe	nsubj
32	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 conditions	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 conditions	det
35	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 observe	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ceremonies	cc
37	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 conditions	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 friendship	case
39	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ceremonies	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Fionn			during my absence		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave in a quote	present	Cael	this			as a compact	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
3	make in a quote	present	you	friends	here		with the Fianna; present property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product
4	observe in a quote	present	you	all conditions and ceremonies of friendship				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
5	absent in a quote		my					nom absence «state 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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