Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 6
If you and your sons will get me the brown horse of the king of Lochlann, you shall get the souls of your sons."
Who acts: you · What happens: get · To what, where: brown horse, me, souls
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), 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 | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sons | cc |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 you | conj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 get | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 horse | amod |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Lochlann | case |
| 16 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 souls | det |
| 22 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sons | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sons | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 souls | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the brown horse of the king of Lochlann | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | shall | you | the souls of your sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus |
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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