Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 58

But you set it to my goodness and to my grace, and say that it was necessity brought it on you, so I must not hang you.

Who acts: you, lot, I · What happens: set, say, be, not hang · To what, where: lot, you · 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, lot, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 set	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 goodness	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 goodness	nmod:poss
7	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grace	cc
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 grace	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grace	nmod:poss
11	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goodness	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 brought	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	cop
18	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	nsubj
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hang	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 hang	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hang	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hang	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 hang	advmod
28	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 hang	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	present	you	lot	to my goodness and my grace	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
2	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	lot		on you; bring property	tree rules
4	not hang	must	I	you		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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