Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 54

"Now," says the giant, "take your own road, and I will take mine; but mind your promise, and if you forget I will remember."

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: say, take, mind, forget, remember, promise · To what, where: giant, own road, mine, promise · 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 (I, 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 road	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 road	amod
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	conj
19	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mind	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 mind	cc
22	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 promise	nmod:poss
24	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mind	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remember	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remember	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 forget	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 forget	nsubj
29	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 remember	advcl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 remember	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 remember	aux
32	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 mind	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the giant	now	tree rules
2	take in a quote	infinitive		your own road		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3	take in a quote	future	I	mine		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme
4	mind in a quote	infinitive		your promise		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	forget a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			tree rules
6	remember in a quote	future	I			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	promise in a quote		your			nom promise «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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