Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 51

“That would not be very easy,” said the poet, “and yet it is not as easy as that, for the bush can only be found by its own knowledge, and that knowledge can only be got by eating the nuts, and the nuts can only be got by eating the salmon.”

Who acts: That, poet, own knowledge · What happens: not be, say, find, get, eat · To what, where: bush, knowledge, nuts, salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, poet, own knowledge), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 easy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 easy	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poet	det
12	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 easy	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 easy	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 easy	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 easy	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 easy	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 easy	advmod
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 easy	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bush	det
27	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	nsubj:pass
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 found	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 easy	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 knowledge	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 knowledge	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 knowledge	amod
35	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 got	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 got	cc
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 knowledge	det
39	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 got	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 got	aux
41	only	only	ADV	_	43 got	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 got	aux:pass
43	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	parataxis
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 eating	mark
45	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 got	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 nuts	det
47	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 eating	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 got	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 got	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 nuts	det
51	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 got	nsubj:pass
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 got	aux
53	only	only	ADV	_	55 got	advmod
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 got	aux:pass
55	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	parataxis
56	by	by	SCONJ	_	57 eating	mark
57	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 got	advcl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 salmon	det
59	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 eating	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 got	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	55 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	would	That			easy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the poet				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is in a quote	present			yet	as that; easy property	tree rules
4	find in a quote	can · passive	Salmon's own knowledge	the bush			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	get in a quote	can · passive		that knowledge			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	eat in a quote	gerund		the nuts			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
7	get in a quote	can · passive		the nuts			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
8	eat in a quote	gerund		the salmon			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=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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