Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 24
“If you do,” Fionn pleaded, “tell it to me upon your honour.”
Who acts: you, Fionn, your · What happens: do, plead, tell, honour · To what, where: honour, Fionn · 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 (you, Fionn, your), 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 | _ | 8 pleaded | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleaded | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pleaded | nsubj |
| 8 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pleaded | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 honour | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 honour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleaded | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Fionn not said here | honour | Fionn | upon your honour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient | ||
| 4 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «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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