Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 258

"If you remembered when I thatched the byre, you would not eat that without giving me my share," says the golden pigeon.

Who acts: you, golden pigeon, my · What happens: remember, thatch, not eat, give, say, share · To what, where: 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 (you, golden pigeon, my), 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 remembered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 remembered	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 says	ccomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 thatched	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 thatched	nsubj
7	thatched	thatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 byre	det
9	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thatched	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eat	advmod
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remembered	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 eat	obj
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 giving	mark
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 eat	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 giving	iobj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 share	nmod:poss
20	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pigeon	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pigeon	amod
26	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 says	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	remember a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	thatch in a quote	past	the golden pigeon = pigeon	the byre		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent byre=Destination
3	not eat in a quote	would	you	that		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	give in a quote	gerund	you not said here	my share	the golden pigeon = pigeon	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient share=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	the golden pigeon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	share in a quote		my			nom share «possession 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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