Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 14

“But, by my word,” said Duv Laca, “I will not go with you unless you grant me a boon.”

Who acts: word, you, my · What happens: say, not go, grant, word · To what, where: boon, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, you, 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	_	9 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Duv	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 go	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	22 grant	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 grant	nsubj
22	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 go	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 grant	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boon	det
25	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grant	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	future	my word = word			with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
3	grant a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a boon	my word = word		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal boon=Theme
4	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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