Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 6
“Pronounce judgement yourself,” said the king, “and if I can do what you demand I will do it.”
Who acts: king, you · What happens: pronounce, say, do, demand · To what, where: judgement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | _ | 2 Pronounce | punct |
| 2 | Pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pronounce | obj |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Pronounce | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pronounce | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pronounce | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 demand | nsubj |
| 19 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 demand | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce in a quote | infinitive | judgement | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent judgement=Theme yourself=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the king = king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | demand speech: request in a quote | present | you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | future | the king = king | judgement | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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