Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 16

In another moment, to the undying shame of every person present, he would have been compelled to lift his own challenge and declare himself the champion of Tara for that night, but the shame that was on the faces of his people would remain in the heart of their king.

Who acts: that, shame, embarrassment · What happens: compel, lift, declare, be, remain, shame · To what, where: embarrassment, own challenge, faces, heart, person present

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, shame, embarrassment), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 compelled	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shame	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 shame	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shame	det
7	undying	undying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shame	amod
8	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 present	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 present	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 present	compound
12	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shame	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 compelled	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 compelled	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 compelled	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 compelled	aux:pass
18	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lift	mark
20	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 compelled	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 challenge	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 challenge	amod
23	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lift	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 declare	cc
25	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lift	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 declare	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 champion	det
28	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Tara	case
30	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 champion	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 night	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 remain	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 remain	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shame	det
37	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 remain	nsubj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 faces	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 faces	cop
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 faces	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 faces	det
42	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shame	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 people	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 people	nmod:poss
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 faces	nmod
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 remain	aux
47	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 compelled	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 heart	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 heart	det
50	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 remain	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 king	case
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 king	nmod:poss
53	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 heart	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 compelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	would · perfect · passive		embarrassment		moment		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	lift	to-infinitive		embarrassment's own challenge				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme
3	declare speech: other	infinitive		embarrassment		night		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme champion=Attribute
4	is	past	that		the faces		of embarrassment's people	tree rules
5	remain	would	the shame		the heart of hearts's king			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
6	shame			every person present				nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	challenge		embarrassment					nom challenge «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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