Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 40
You can keep Becuma and your ills as long as you want to.
Who acts: You · What happens: keep, want · To what, where: Becuma
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ills | cc |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ills | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ills | ill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Becuma | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 want | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 want | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | can | You | Becuma and your ills | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent becuma=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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