Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 37
Maybe I won't remember your kindness if ever I find you in hardship; and where in the world are you all going?"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not remember, find, go · To what, where: kindness, you, hardship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 remember | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 find | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hardship | case |
| 14 | hardship | hardship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 going | cc |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 going | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 where | obl |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | future | I | your kindness | maybe property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | I | you | hardship | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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