Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 59

“My heart,” he said, “we must always try to act wisely, and we should only insist on receiving answers to questions in which we are personally concerned.”

Who acts: heart, we · What happens: say, try, act, insist, receive, be · To what, where: answers, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, we), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heart	nmod:poss
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heart	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 heart	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 try	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 try	advmod
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 act	mark
15	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	xcomp
16	wisely	wisely	ADV	_	15 act	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 insist	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 insist	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 insist	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 insist	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 insist	advmod
22	insist	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 receiving	mark
24	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 insist	advcl
25	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 receiving	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 questions	case
27	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 receiving	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 concerned	obl
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 concerned	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 concerned	cop
32	personally	personally	ADV	_	33 concerned	advmod
33	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 questions	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My heart				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try in a quote	must	we			always property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	act not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			wisely property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	insist speech: other in a quote	should	we				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	receive in a quote	gerund	we not said here	answers		to questions	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	we		questions	concerned, personally property	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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