Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 26
Believe us, you'll repent it."
Who acts: you · What happens: believe, repent · To what, where: us, journey
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. 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 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 repent | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 repent | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 repent | aux |
| 6 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 repent | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | us | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | repent | future | you | journey | 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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