Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 18
"If you will do me a kindness, and will put me in a way to get him, for certain I will pay ye for it."
Who acts: you, Conall · What happens: do, put, get, pay · To what, where: kindness, Conall, way, king, ye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Conall), 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 | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kindness | det |
| 8 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 certain | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 certain | case |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 get | xcomp |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pay | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pay | aux |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 certain | ccomp |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 pay | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pay | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | a kindness | Conall | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | future | Conall | a way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in way=Destination | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | king | certain property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | future | Conall | ye | for way | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ye=Asset for it=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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