Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 22

“I am under bonds,” cried Art, “I have passed my word, and I would not forget Ireland or cut myself from it for all the kingdoms of the Many-Coloured Land.”

Who acts: bonds, my · What happens: be, cry, pass, not forget, cut, word · To what, where: bonds, Art, word, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bonds, my), 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	_	8 cried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bonds	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bonds	cop
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 bonds	case
5	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bonds	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bonds	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 passed	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	aux
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 word	nmod:poss
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forget	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 forget	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 forget	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 forget	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 forget	advmod
22	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 passed	conj
23	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 forget	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
25	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 forget	conj
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 cut	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 kingdoms	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 kingdoms	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 kingdoms	det
32	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cut	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	38 Land	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Land	det
35	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Coloured	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Many	punct
37	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Land	amod
38	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kingdoms	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	bonds = bond		bonds		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	bonds	Art			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic
3	pass in a quote	present · perfect	bonds = bond	my word			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory
4	not forget in a quote	would	bonds = bond	Ireland			tree rules
5	cut in a quote	infinitive	bonds = bond not said here	bonds = bond	word	for all kingdoms of the Coloured Land	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent myself=Product from it=Material for kingdom=Beneficiary
6	word in a quote		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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