Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 45
"But you'll keep your word true?" says the saint.
Who acts: you, saint, your · What happens: keep, say, word · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, saint, your), 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 | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 saint | det |
| 13 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | future | you | your word | true property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | the saint | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | word in a quote | your | nom word «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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