Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 28
“Do not go, my one treasure,” his mother pleaded.
Who acts: mother, my · What happens: not go, plead, treasure · To what, where: one treasure · 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 (mother, 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pleaded | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 treasure | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 treasure | nummod |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pleaded | nsubj |
| 13 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my one treasure | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | Ri's mother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | 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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