Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 19
“Let us not go near him at all,” said Mongan, “for he is coming to complete his bargain.”
Who acts: us, Mongan, King · What happens: let, not go, say, come, complete, bargain · To what, where: us, all, bargain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Mongan, King), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coming | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 coming | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 coming | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 complete | mark |
| 21 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 coming | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 complete | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | all | near King | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Mongan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | complete in a quote | to-infinitive | Mongan not said here | King's bargain | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | bargain in a quote | King | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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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