Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 29
“You may begin, Goll,” said Fionn, “and I give you my blessing.”
Who acts: You, Fionn, my · What happens: begin, say, give, bless · To what, where: Goll, blessing, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. 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, 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 | _ | 4 begin | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 begin | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | aux |
| 4 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Goll | punct |
| 6 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begin | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | may | You | Goll | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | Fionn | my blessing | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 4 | bless in a quote | my | nom blessing «act 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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