Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 9
"Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it."
Who acts: Malcolm, you · What happens: not mind, take, soothsaie, have, be, do · To what, where: little
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 (Malcolm, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 mind | xcomp |
| 9 | soothsaying | soothsaie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 taking | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 soothsaying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | advcl |
| 16 | soothsaying | soothsaie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 had | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 soothsaying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 willing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 willing | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 willing | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 willing | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 willing | cop |
| 24 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mind | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 willing | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | Malcolm | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | Malcolm not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | soothsaie in a quote | gerund | Malcolm not said here | from you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | soothsaie in a quote | gerund | you not said here | for Malcolm | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | would | you | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | little | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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