Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 8

“If you tried to take me away from this place against my own wish, one half of the men of Ulster would be dead before you got me and the other half would be badly wounded in my defence.”

Who acts: you, one half, other half, my · What happens: try, take away, be, get, wish, defend · To what, where: woman, place, own wish, defence

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, one half, other half, 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	_	4 tried	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tried	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
12	against	against	ADP	_	15 wish	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wish	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wish	amod
15	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 half	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 half	nummod
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 dead	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 half	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Ulster	case
23	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 men	nmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 dead	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 dead	cop
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wish	acl:relcl
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 got	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
29	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 got	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wounded	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 half	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 half	amod
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 wounded	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 wounded	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 wounded	cop
37	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 wounded	advmod
38	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 got	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 defence	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 defence	nmod:poss
41	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wounded	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	past	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take away not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	woman	this place against my own wish	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme from place=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	would	one half of the men of Ulster	my own wish not said here		dead property	tree rules
4	get in a quote	past	you	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	would	the other half		my defence	badly, wounded property	tree rules
6	wish in a quote		my				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
7	defend in a quote		my				nom defence «process 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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