Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 5

He would have told why a slash was enough for this man and why that man should be sliced.

Who acts: den, slash · What happens: tell, be, slice · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (den, slash), 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 told	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 enough	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slash	det
7	slash	slash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enough	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enough	cop
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enough	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sliced	cc
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sliced	advmod
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sliced	nsubj:pass
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sliced	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sliced	aux:pass
19	sliced	slice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 enough	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would · perfect	den			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a slash		for this man; enough property	tree rules
3	slice	should · passive		that man		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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