Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 19
“I am not one who takes a thing without giving a thing,” said he.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, take, give, say · To what, where: one, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 one | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 said | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 takes | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giving | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | I | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | a thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | gerund | a thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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