Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 8

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.”

Who acts: you, man · What happens: tell, be, know · To what, where: past, me · 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 (you, man), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 past	nmod:poss
4	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beloved	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beloved	nmod:poss
7	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 past	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 past	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 past	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 past	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 past	nmod:poss
14	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 known	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 known	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 known	aux:pass
18	to	to	PART	_	20 known	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 known	aux:pass
20	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 past	parataxis
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 known	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	your past	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient past=Topic
2	is	present	a man			past property	tree rules
3	know	present · passive				by past	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»

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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