Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 13
“You shall die for Ireland, dear heart,” said one of them, and he gave Segda three kisses on each cheek.
Who acts: You, one, Ireland · What happens: die, say, give · To what, where: three kisses, Segda, cheek · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, one, Ireland), 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 die | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Ireland | case |
| 6 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heart | punct |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ireland | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 kisses | nummod |
| 22 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 cheek | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 cheek | det |
| 25 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | shall | You | for Ireland | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ireland=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of debates | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Ireland | three kisses | Segda | each cheek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent segda=Recipient kiss=Theme on cheek=Asset |
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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