Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 51
If I don't treat him to as smart feeding as he's got this many a day, never trust Oonagh again.
Who acts: I, Oonagh, you · What happens: not treat, get, not trust · To what, where: Oonagh, many
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Oonagh, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 treat | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 treat | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 treat | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 treat | advmod |
| 5 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 trust | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 treat | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 feeding | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 feeding | case |
| 9 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feeding | amod |
| 10 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treat | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 treat | advcl |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 many | nsubj |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 many | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trust | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 trust | advmod |
| 21 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 trust | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 trust | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not treat a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | Oonagh | to smart feeding | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme to feeding=be' | |||
| 2 | get | present · passive | Oonagh | many | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not trust | imperative | you not said here | Oonagh | again | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oonagh=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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