Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 29
“I bind you to eat no food in Ireland until you find the wand of Curoi, son of Dare’.”
Who acts: game, you · What happens: bind, eat, find · To what, where: you, food, Ireland, wand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bind | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bind | nsubj |
| 3 | bind | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bind | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bind | xcomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 food | det |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ireland | case |
| 10 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 food | nmod |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wand | det |
| 15 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Curoi | case |
| 17 | Curoi | Curoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wand | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wand | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Dare | case |
| 21 | Dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bind | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind in a quote | present | game | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | game not said here | no food | Ireland | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 3 | find in a quote | present | you | the wand of Curoi | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=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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