Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 34
For no secret can remain secret.
Who acts: secret · What happens: remain
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secret), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:409): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | CCONJ | _ | 5 remain | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 secret | det |
| 3 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | aux |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remain | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | can | no secret | secret property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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