Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 16
If you will not let me go with you, go to the smithy, and let the smith make me a great strong sword, and I will go seek my fortune."
Who acts: you, me, smith, I · What happens: not let, go, let, make, seek · To what, where: me, smithy, smith, great strong sword, fortune
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, smith, 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 let | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 smithy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smithy | det |
| 14 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smith | det |
| 19 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sword | amod |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sword | amod |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 31 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | xcomp |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seek | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | me not said here | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | me not said here | the smith | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | the smith not said here | a great strong sword | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary sword=Product | |||
| 6 | go | future | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | my fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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