Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 16
"Or if you blame me for obeying your orders, you must give the same."
Who acts: you, your · What happens: blame, obey, give, order · To what, where: master, orders, same
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 blame | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 obeying | mark |
| 8 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 blame | advcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 orders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 obeying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blame | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the master = master | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | gerund | you not said here | your orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | must | you | the same | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | your | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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