Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 59
Don't leave a mother's son of 'em alive; present, fire!"
Who acts: you · What happens: not leave · To what, where: son
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 (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 leave | advmod |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mother | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 'em | case |
| 9 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leave | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 present | punct |
| 12 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 present | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a mother's son of 'em | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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