Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 39
But since I give credence to your language and to your faith, which you taught me, I will myself let in the bird."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, teach, let · To what, where: credence, language, faith, me
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 (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | advcl |
| 5 | credence | credence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 language | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 language | nmod:poss |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 faith | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 faith | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faith | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 language | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taught | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 taught | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 taught | nsubj |
| 16 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 faith | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 taught | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | aux |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 let | nsubj |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | credence | your language and your faith | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credence=Theme to language=Recipient | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | you | your faith | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=Topic | |||
| 3 | let | future | I | in the bird | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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: «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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