Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 32

He then swore that he would kill him if he did not show him where his money was.

Who acts: Tom, money · What happens: swear, kill, not show, be · To what, where: beer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, money), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swore	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 swore	advmod
3	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 kill	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swore	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 show	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 show	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 show	advmod
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kill	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	iobj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 show	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 money	nmod:poss
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 where	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 where	cop
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	Tom			then		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	kill	would	Tom	beer				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not show a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Tom		beer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past	Tom's money				where property	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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