Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 12

"Well, the soothsaying I wanted was that you would tell me my lot or what will happen to me, if you can give me knowledge of it."

Who acts: Malcolm, soothsaying, you · What happens: want, be, happen, give · To what, where: soothsaying, Malcolm, knowledge

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malcolm, soothsaying, 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	_	12 tell	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	12 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soothsaying	det
5	soothsaying	soothsaying	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soothsaying	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 tell	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lot	nmod:poss
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 happen	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happen	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
19	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 happen	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 give	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knowledge	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	past	Malcolm	the soothsaying not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot soothsaying=Theme
2	is in a quote	would · past	the soothsaying		Malcolm	tell property	tree rules
3	happen in a quote	future			Malcolm		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	knowledge of soothsaying	Malcolm		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient knowledge=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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