Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10

“My son,” said Finnian, “all that has ever been done has been done for the glory of God, and to confess our good and evil deeds is part of instruction; for the soul must recall its acts and abide by them, or renounce them by confession and penitence.

Who acts: son, God, instruction · What happens: say, do, confess, be, recall, abide · To what, where: good deeds, part, acts, deeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, God, instruction), 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	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 done	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 done	obj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 done	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 done	aux:pass
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 all	acl:relcl
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 done	aux:pass
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 glory	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 glory	det
21	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 done	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 God	case
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 glory	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 confess	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 confess	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 confess	mark
27	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 part	csubj
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 deeds	nmod:poss
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 deeds	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 evil	cc
31	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 good	conj
32	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 confess	obj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 part	cop
34	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 instruction	case
36	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 part	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 recall	punct
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 soul	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 soul	det
40	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 recall	obl
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 recall	aux
42	recall	recall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 acts	nmod:poss
44	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 recall	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 abide	cc
46	abide	abide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 recall	conj
47	by	by	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 abide	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 renounce	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 renounce	cc
51	renounce	renounce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 recall	conj
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 renounce	obj
53	by	by	ADP	_	54 confession	case
54	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 renounce	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 penitence	cc
56	penitence	penitence	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 confession	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	present · perfect · passive			ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
3	do in a quote	present · perfect · passive	My son not said here			for the glory of God	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
4	confess in a quote	to-infinitive		our good deeds			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present		part		of instruction	tree rules
6	recall in a quote	must		instruction's acts		for the soul	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme
7	abide in a quote	infinitive				by acts = act	tree rules
8	renounce in a quote	infinitive		deeds = deed		by confession and penitence	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
9	glory in a quote		God				nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent
10	act in a quote		instruction				nom act «communication intransitive»: 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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