Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 6
If I go knowingly to work, I'm a made man.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, work, make, be · To what, where: made man
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | advcl |
| 4 | knowingly | knowingly | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 work | mark |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 man | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | I | knowingly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a made man | 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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