Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 56

That man from the Shi’ may come any minute, and if I catch one sound of his music I am done for.”

Who acts: man, I · What happens: come, catch, do · To what, where: one sound, I

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 ’	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ’	det
5	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ’	compound
6	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 catch	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 catch	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 catch	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 catch	nsubj
15	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sound	nummod
17	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 catch	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 music	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 music	nmod:poss
20	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sound	nmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux:pass
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 music	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	23 done	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	may	that man from the Shi ’		minute	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch a condition, not said to happen	present	I	one sound of man's music		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
3	do	present · passive		I		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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