Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 44
“I bind you,” said Becuma, “to eat no food in Ireland until you have found Delvcaem, the daughter of Morgan.”
Who acts: Becuma, you · What happens: bind, say, eat, find · To what, where: you, food, Ireland, Delvcaem · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Becuma, 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 | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bind | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bind | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bind | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 food | det |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Ireland | case |
| 16 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obl |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 found | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 eat | advcl |
| 21 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daughter | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 daughter | det |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Delvcaem | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Morgan | case |
| 26 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind in a quote | present | Becuma | you | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Becuma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | no food | Ireland | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | present · perfect | you | Delvcaem | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delvcaem=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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