Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 73

Troth, I hope, for the poor giant's sake, he won't meet with him, for if he does, Fin will make paste of him at once."

Who acts: I, husband · What happens: hope, not meet, do, fin, make · To what, where: Troth, paste

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, husband), 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	Troth	troth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hope	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hope	nsubj
4	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sake	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 sake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giant	amod
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sake	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 giant	case
11	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hope	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 meet	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meet	nsubj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 meet	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 meet	advmod
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meet	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Fin	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 Fin	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 does	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 does	nsubj
23	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Fin	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 does	punct
25	Fin	fin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 meet	conj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hope	parataxis
28	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paste	nmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 make	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	present	I	Troth	for the poor giant's sake	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sake=Theme
2	not meet	future	husband		with giant	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
3	do a condition, not said to happen	present	husband			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fin	infinitive	husband not said here			tree rules
5	make	future		paste of husband		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paste=Product

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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