Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 28

I am only the servant, and although I didn’t make any bargain with the King of Leinster or with any king of them all, yet my wife is gone away as if she was the consort of a potentate the same as Duv Laca is.”

Who acts: I, wife, Duv · What happens: be, not make · To what, where: servant, bargain, consort

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, Duv), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 servant	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 servant	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 servant	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
8	although	although	SCONJ	_	12 make	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 make	advmod
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 servant	parataxis
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 bargain	det
14	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 King	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bargain	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Leinster	case
19	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 King	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 king	cc
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 king	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bargain	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 king	nmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 them	nmod:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	cop
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 make	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 gone	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 consort	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 consort	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 consort	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 consort	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 consort	det
39	consort	consort	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	advcl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 potentate	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 potentate	det
42	potentate	potentate	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 consort	nmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 same	det
44	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 potentate	amod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 is	mark
46	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 is	nsubj
47	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Duv	flat
48	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 servant	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the servant		tree rules
2	not make	past · do-support	I	any bargain or any king of bargain	with the King of Leinster	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
3	is	present	my wife		away, go property	tree rules
4	is a	past	wife	the consort	of a potentate	tree rules
5	be	present	Duv			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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