Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 14
Then they offered a cow for each leg of her cow, but she would not accept that offer unless Fiachna went bail for the payment.
Who acts: things, cow, Fiachna · What happens: offer, not accept, go · To what, where: cow, offer, bail
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, cow, Fiachna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 leg | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 leg | det |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cow | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leg | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 accept | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 accept | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 accept | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 accept | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 accept | advmod |
| 17 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 offer | det |
| 19 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accept | obj |
| 20 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 21 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 accept | advcl |
| 23 | bail | bail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 payment | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 payment | det |
| 26 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | things = thing | a cow | then | for each leg of cow's cow goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for leg=Goal | ||
| 2 | not accept | would | cow | that offer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | Fiachna | bail | for the payment | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=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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