Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 54
“I will not hurt any of these people until you return,” he said.
Who acts: Cael, you · What happens: not hurt, return, say · To what, where: any · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cael, you), 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 | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 any | nmod |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 return | nsubj |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 return | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt in a quote | future | Cael | any | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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