Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 60
But, if I did, no man else can see her unless he get directions from me as to where she is dwelling."
Who acts: I, man, Erin · What happens: do, see, get, dwell · To what, where: Erin, directions
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, man, Erin), 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 | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 did | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 man | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 directions | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 dwelling | mark |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 dwelling | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dwelling | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dwelling | aux |
| 24 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 get | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | can | no man | Erin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | man | directions | from me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent direction=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 4 | dwell | present · progressive | Erin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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