Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3

The past also must be reckoned with; it is seldom as far behind us as we could wish: it is more often in front, blocking the way, and the future trips over it just when we think that the road is clear and joy our own.

Who acts: past, we, future, road · What happens: reckon, be, wish, block, trip, think · To what, where: past, front, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (past, we, future, road), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 past	det
2	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 far	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	6 reckoned	advmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reckoned	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 reckoned	aux:pass
6	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 past	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	6 reckoned	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 far	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 far	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 far	cop
11	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 far	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 wish	mark
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wish	aux
19	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 far	ccomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 front	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 front	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 front	cop
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 often	advmod
24	often	often	ADV	_	26 front	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wish	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 blocking	punct
28	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 front	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blocking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 trips	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 trips	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 future	det
34	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trips	nsubj
35	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wish	parataxis
36	over	over	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 trips	obl
38	just	just	ADV	_	41 think	advmod
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 think	advmod
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 think	nsubj
41	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 trips	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 clear	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 road	det
44	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 clear	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 clear	cop
46	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 think	ccomp
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 joy	cc
48	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 clear	conj
49	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 own	nmod:poss
50	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 clear	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 far	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reckon	must · passive		the past not said here			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»
2	is	present	the past			behind us; far, seldom property	tree rules
3	wish	could	we				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	present	past		front	often property	tree rules
5	block	gerund	past not said here	the way			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=Theme
6	trip	present	the future		way		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
7	think speech: other	present	we				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	the road			clear property	tree rules
9	be		the road not said here				tree rules

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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