Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 88
If you don't believe me, I'll give you leave to go and judge for yourselves."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not believe, give, leave, go, judge · To what, where: me, you
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, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 leave | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 judge | cc |
| 16 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 yourselves | case |
| 18 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 judge | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | judge | infinitive | I not said here | for yourselves | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for yourselves=Beneficiary |
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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