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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 6

I would give ye that, were I to have a son," said he. "

Who acts: I, man · What happens: give, have, say · To what, where: ye, son · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, man), 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

nsubjauxiobjmarkpunctauxnsubjmarkccompdetobjpunctpunctadvclnsubjpunctpunctrootIPRONwouldAUXgiveVERByePRONthatSCONJ,PUNCTwereAUXIPRONtoPARThaveVERBaDETsonNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBhePRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 givensubj
2wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin3 giveaux
3givegiveVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
4yeyePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch3 giveiobj
5thatthatSCONJ_10 havemark
6,,PUNCT_5 thatpunct
7werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 haveaux
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs10 havensubj
9totoPART_10 havemark
10havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf15 saidccomp
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 sondet
12sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing10 haveobj
13,,PUNCT_10 havepunct
14""PUNCT_10 havepunct
15saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 giveadvcl
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 saidnsubj
17..PUNCT_3 givepunct
18""PUNCT_3 givepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givewouldIyevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme
2havepastIa sonvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3say speech: assert in a quotepastmanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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