Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 31

Becfola again broke in, speaking graciously, regally, hastily: “Let those Brothers have the entire of the treasure, for it is Sunday treasure, and as such it will bring no luck to any one.”

Who acts: Becfola, Brothers, treasure · What happens: break in, speak, let, have, be, bring · To what, where: entire, luck, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becfola, Brothers, treasure), 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	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	3 broke	advmod
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 broke	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speaking	punct
6	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 broke	advcl
7	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	6 speaking	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hastily	punct
9	regally	regally	ADV	_	11 hastily	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hastily	punct
11	hastily	hastily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broke	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Let	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Let	punct
14	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 hastily	parataxis
15	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 Brothers	det
16	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Let	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 entire	det
19	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 treasure	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 treasure	det
22	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entire	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treasure	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 treasure	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 treasure	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 treasure	cop
27	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 treasure	compound
28	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Let	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 such	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bring	obl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Let	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 luck	det
37	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 one	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	break in	past	Becfola			again		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	speak speech: other	gerund	Becfola not said here				graciously property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	that Brothers	the entire				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entire=Patient
5	is in a quote	present	treasure				for Sunday treasure	tree rules
6	bring in a quote	future	treasure	no luck	any one		as such	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme to one=Destination

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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