Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 25

“If I had come here with horses and treasure you would be in your right to take these from me, but you have no right to ask for what you are now asking.”

Who acts: Mongan, you · What happens: come, treasure, be, take, have, ask · To what, where: right, these · 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 (Mongan, you), 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	_	10 treasure	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 treasure	advcl
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 treasure	cc
10	treasure	treasure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 right	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 right	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 right	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 right	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 right	nmod:poss
16	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 treasure	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 right	acl
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 take	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 treasure	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 right	det
27	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ask	mark
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 right	acl
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 asking	mark
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 asking	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 asking	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 asking	aux
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 asking	advmod
35	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 ask	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 treasure	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 treasure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Mongan		here		with horses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	treasure in a quote	present						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	would	you		your right			tree rules
4	take in a quote	to-infinitive		these			from Mongan	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent this=Theme from i=Initial_Location
5	have in a quote	present	you	no right				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	no right not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	present · progressive	you			now		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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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