Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 18
New memories come crowding on old ones, and one must learn to forget as well as to remember.
Who acts: New memories, one · What happens: come, crowd, learn, forget, remember
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (New memories, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1152): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 memories | amod |
| 2 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 come | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowding | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learn | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learn | cc |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 learn | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 learn | aux |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 forget | mark |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learn | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 remember | cc |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 remember | mark |
| 19 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forget | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | New memories | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crowd | gerund | New memories not said here | on old ones | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on one=Destination | ||||
| 3 | learn | must | one | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | forget | to-infinitive | one not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | remember | to-infinitive | one not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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