Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 36
Then he said to the Lepracaun, "Swear ye'll not take that garter away from that boliaun."
Who acts: Tom, ye · What happens: say, swear, not take · To what, where: Lepracaun, garter · 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, ye), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Lepracaun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lepracaun | det |
| 6 | Lepracaun | Lepracaun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Swear | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Swear | punct |
| 9 | Swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 take | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Swear | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 garter | det |
| 15 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 boliaun | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 boliaun | det |
| 19 | boliaun | boliaun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Swear | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | the Lepracaun | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lepracaun=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | swear in a quote | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not take in a quote | future | ye | that garter | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=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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