Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 157

But don't forget a bone of me on the tree."

Who acts: you · What happens: not forget · To what, where: bone, tree

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 forget	cc
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bone	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bone	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	imperative · do-support	you not said here	a bone of me		the tree			tree rules

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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