Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 47

"Ah, tell the justices," said Ivan, "to summon the real murderers."

Who acts: you, Ivan · What happens: tell, say, summon · To what, where: justices, real murderers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ivan), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 justices	det
6	justices	justice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 summon	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 summon	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 summon	mark
14	summon	summon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 murderers	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 murderers	amod
17	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 summon	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the justices	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent justice=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Ivan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	summon in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the real murderers	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Recipient

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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