Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 25

“Swear by the sun and moon, if I let you go home, that you will send to Fionn, yearly and every year, the rent of the land of Thessaly.”

Who acts: you, Carl · What happens: swear, let, go, send, rent · To what, where: you, rent, Fionn, land

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. 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), 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	_	2 Swear	punct
2	Swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Swear	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 moon	cc
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sun	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Swear	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 send	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 send	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 send	aux
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Fionn	case
21	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 send	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yearly	punct
23	yearly	yearly	ADV	_	19 send	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 year	cc
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yearly	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rent	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rent	det
29	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 send	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 land	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 land	det
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rent	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Thessaly	case
34	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 land	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Swear	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Swear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swear in a quote	imperative	you not said here			by the sun and moon	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Carl	you			tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	send in a quote	future	you	the rent of the land of Thessaly	Fionn	yearly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to fionn=Destination
5	rent in a quote			the land of Thessaly			nom rent «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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