Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 53

You would not cheat the poor man, would you?"

Who acts: You · What happens: not cheat · To what, where: poor man

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cheat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cheat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cheat	advmod
4	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 would	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cheat	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 would	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cheat	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cheat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cheat	would	You	the poor man					vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Source

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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