Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 27
“Why do you bind these woes on me?” he pleaded.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: bind, plead · To what, where: woes · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 bind | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bind | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bind | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bind | nsubj |
| 5 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pleaded | ccomp |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 woes | det |
| 7 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bind | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bind | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bind | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bind | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pleaded | nsubj |
| 13 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind in a quote | present · do-support | you | this woes | on King | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Patient | |||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | King | tree rules |
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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