Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 14

“Indeed,” said Segda, returning those kisses, “indeed I had not bargained to die for Ireland, but only to bathe in her waters and to remove her pestilence.”

Who acts: Segda · What happens: say, return, not bargain, die, bathe, remove · To what, where: kisses, pestilence · 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 (Segda), 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 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Segda	Segda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 returning	punct
8	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 kisses	det
10	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 returning	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bargained	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 bargained	punct
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 bargained	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bargained	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bargained	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 bargained	advmod
17	bargained	bargain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 returning	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 die	mark
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bargained	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 Ireland	case
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 die	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bathe	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 bathe	cc
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 bathe	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bathe	mark
26	bathe	bathe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 waters	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 waters	nmod:poss
29	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bathe	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remove	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 remove	mark
32	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 bathe	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pestilence	nmod:poss
34	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remove	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Segda		indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	return	gerund	Segda not said here	that kisses		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme
3	not bargain in a quote	past · perfect	Segda		indeed property	tree rules
4	die in a quote	to-infinitive	Segda not said here		for Ireland	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ireland=Theme
5	bathe in a quote	to-infinitive			in Tara's waters	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=Theme
6	remove in a quote	to-infinitive		Tara's pestilence		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestilence=Theme

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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