Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 41
“If you won’t try to run, my treasure,” said the Carl, “you will never get your tribute.”
Who acts: you, Carl, my · What happens: not try, run, say, not get, treasure · To what, where: treasure, tribute · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Carl, 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 | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 try | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 try | advmod |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 treasure | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Carl | det |
| 16 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tribute | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my treasure | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Carl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not get in a quote | future | you | your tribute | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tribute=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession 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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