Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 9
You will not evade your challenge in that way, my love, and you shall run with me or you shall run to your ship with me behind you.
Who acts: You, your, my · What happens: not evade, run, challenge, love · To what, where: challenge, way, ship
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 (You, your, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 evade | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 evade | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 evade | advmod |
| 4 | evade | evade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 challenge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evade | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evade | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 run | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 run | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 run | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 run | aux |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 evade | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 run | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 run | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 run | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 run | aux |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 run | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ship | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ship | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 run | obl |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 run | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 evade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not evade | future | You | your challenge | that way and my love | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent challenge=Location | |||
| 2 | run | shall | you | with me | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with i=Material | ||||
| 3 | run | shall | you | your ship | with me; behind you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=Destination | |||
| 4 | challenge | your | nom challenge «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | love | my | nom love «feeling 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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