Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 76

He said "I will grant you that, hard though it is, if you will give me your unfailing promise that you will marry me at the year's end."

Who acts: Connachar, step, you, unfailing promise, your · What happens: say, grant, be, give, marry, promise · To what, where: you, unfailing promise, Connachar, end · 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 (Connachar, step, you, unfailing promise), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 grant	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 grant	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grant	aux
6	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 grant	obj
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 grant	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 is	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grant	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 promise	nmod:poss
21	unfailing	unfailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promise	compound
22	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 marry	nsubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 marry	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 marry	aux
26	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 promise	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 marry	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	32 end	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 end	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 year	case
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 marry	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grant	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Connachar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grant in a quote	future	Connachar	you			hard property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	be in a quote	present	step					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	your unfailing promise	Connachar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient promise=Theme
5	marry in a quote	future	your unfailing promise	Connachar		at the year's end		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	promise in a quote		your					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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