Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 256

Said the golden pigeon to him, "If you remembered when I cleared the byre, you would not eat that without giving me a share."

Who acts: golden pigeon, son · What happens: say, remember, clear, not eat, give · To what, where: son, byre, that, share, golden pigeon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (golden pigeon, son), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pigeon	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pigeon	amod
4	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remembered	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 remembered	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 remembered	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 remembered	nsubj
11	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 cleared	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cleared	nsubj
14	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 remembered	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 byre	det
16	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cleared	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 eat	advmod
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 eat	obj
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 giving	mark
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 eat	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 giving	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 share	det
27	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the golden pigeon		son	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	remember a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	son			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	clear in a quote	past	the golden pigeon = pigeon	the byre		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent byre=Source
4	not eat in a quote	would	son	that		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	give in a quote	gerund	son not said here	a share	the golden pigeon = pigeon	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient share=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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