Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 13

“I will eat with you,” said Segda (Sweet Speech), “and thus, while you are our guest you will not do violence to your vows.”

Who acts: Segda, you, your · What happens: eat, say, be, not do, vow · To what, where: guest, violence · 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 (Segda, you, your), 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 eat	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Segda	Segda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 Speech	punct
12	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Speech	amod
13	Speech	Speech	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Segda	appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 Speech	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thus	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 thus	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thus	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	9 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guest	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 guest	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 guest	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 guest	cop
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 guest	nmod:poss
24	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thus	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 do	advmod
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 guest	acl:relcl
29	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 vows	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 vows	nmod:poss
32	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	future	Segda		with you	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Segda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	you	our guest		tree rules
4	not do in a quote	future	you	violence	to your vows	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Eventuality
5	vow in a quote		your			nom vow «communication 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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