Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 16
“And you must pass your word and pledge your word that you will do what I ask.”
Who acts: you, Branduv, your · What happens: pass, pledge, do, ask, word · To what, where: word
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 (you, Branduv, your), 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 | _ | 5 pass | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pass | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pledge | cc |
| 9 | pledge | pledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pass | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod:poss |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pledge | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 do | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 word | acl:relcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 ask | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | must | you | your word | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pledge in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your word | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | you | your word | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | Branduv | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | word in a quote | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | word in a quote | your | 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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