Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 75

But she said to him, "I would be obliged to you if you will give me the respite of a year and a day."

Who acts: woman, Connachar · What happens: say, oblige, give, respite · To what, where: Connachar, woman, respite, year · 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 (woman, Connachar), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obliged	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 obliged	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 obliged	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 obliged	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 obliged	aux:pass
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 obliged	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 give	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 obliged	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 respite	det
20	respite	respite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 year	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 respite	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 day	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 respite	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman		Connachar	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	oblige in a quote	would · passive		woman	Connachar	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	Connachar	the respite of a year and a day	woman	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient respite=Theme
4	respite in a quote			a year		nom respite «state transitive»: of=patient

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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