Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 24

“We would not lend our son to any one, not even to gain the kingship of the world,” said he.

Who acts: We, son · What happens: not lend, not gain, say · To what, where: son, kingship · 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 (We, son), 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	_	5 lend	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lend	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lend	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 lend	advmod
5	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lend	iobj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lend	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gain	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 gain	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 gain	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 gain	mark
15	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lend	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kingship	det
17	kingship	kingship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gain	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kingship	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lend	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lend	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not lend in a quote	would	We		our son	to any one	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to one=Recipient
2	not gain in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	the kingship of the world			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingship=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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