Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 32

Wait here, beloved, and eat blackberries until I come back, and we’ll both start fair.”

Who acts: you, I, we, both · What happens: wait, eat, come back, 'll, start · To what, where: blackberries

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, we, both), 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Wait	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beloved	punct
4	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ’ll	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ’ll	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ’ll	nsubj
16	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 start	nsubj
18	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ’ll	ccomp
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 start	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here	blackberries			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient
3	come back	present	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	'll	present	we				tree rules
5	start	present	both			fair property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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