Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 10

He would have known a thousand tricks, and because our instinct is to teach, and because no man can keep a trick from a boy, he would show them to Fionn.

Who acts: instinct, man · What happens: know, be, keep, show · To what, where: man, trick, tricks, Fionn

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instinct, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 known	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tricks	nummod
7	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 known	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 show	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 show	cc
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 teach	mark
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 instinct	nmod:poss
12	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 teach	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 teach	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 teach	mark
15	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 show	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keep	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 keep	cc
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 keep	mark
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 teach	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 trick	det
24	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 boy	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 teach	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 show	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 show	aux
31	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 show	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Fionn	case
34	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 show	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	would · perfect · passive		man			tree rules
2	is	present	our instinct			teach property	tree rules
3	keep	can	no man	a trick		from a boy	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer trick=Beneficiary from boy=Eventuality
4	show	would	man	tricks = trick	Fionn		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to fionn=Recipient

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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