Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 45

“I will say it till Doom,” cried his servant, “for my wife has gone away with that pestilent king, and he has got the double of your bad bargain.”

Who acts: servant, King, bad bargain, your · What happens: say, cry, go away, get, double, bargain · To what, where: Da’v, double · 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 (servant, King, bad bargain, 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	_	4 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 Doom	case
7	Doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 servant	nmod:poss
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 gone	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 king	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 king	det
23	pestilent	pestilent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 king	amod
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 got	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 got	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 got	aux
29	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 double	det
31	double	double	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 bargain	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bargain	nmod:poss
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bargain	amod
35	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 double	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	future	King's servant = servant	Da’v = da'v	till Doom		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	King's servant				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go away in a quote	present · perfect	King's servant not said here			for my wife; with that pestilent king; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wife=Beneficiary
4	get in a quote	present · perfect	King	the double of your bad bargain			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer double=Stimulus
5	double in a quote		your bad bargain				nom double «act intransitive»: of=agent
6	bargain in a quote		your				nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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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