Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 42

“You know, my friend,” said Mongan, “that I can’t get Duv Laca back unless the King of Leinster asks me to take her back, for a bargain is a bargain.”

Who acts: You, Mongan, King, bargain · What happens: know, say, not get back, ask, take, be · To what, where: friend, Duv, Mongan, back · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, Mongan, King, bargain), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
19	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Duv	flat
20	back	back	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 asks	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 asks	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Leinster	case
25	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 King	nmod
26	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 get	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 asks	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asks	xcomp
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bargain	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	38 bargain	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bargain	det
35	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bargain	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 bargain	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bargain	det
38	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	You	my friend			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Mongan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not get back in a quote	can	Mongan	Duv			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duv=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the King of Leinster		Mongan		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the King of Leinster not said here	Leinster's back			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	a bargain			for a bargain	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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