Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 69

And I should be obliged to you, were you to tell who it is that wants me to open my bothy door."

Who acts: bothy, me · What happens: oblige, be, tell, want, open · To what, where: I, you, me, bothy door · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bothy, me), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 obliged	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 obliged	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 obliged	aux:pass
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 obliged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 you	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 you	cop
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 you	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 obliged	advcl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	12 tell	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 who	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 who	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wants	mark
17	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wants	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 open	mark
20	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wants	xcomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 door	nmod:poss
22	bothy	bothy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	compound
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 open	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	oblige	should · passive		I	you	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past		you		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	bothy			tree rules
5	want	present		me		tree rules
6	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	my bothy door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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