Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 7

Shame grows in that blank, or anger gathers there, and we must choose which of these is to be our master.

Who acts: Shame, anger, we · What happens: grow, gather, choose, be · To what, where: blank, master

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shame, anger, 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	Shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 blank	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 blank	nsubj
5	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grows	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gathers	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 gathers	cc
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gathers	nsubj
9	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	parataxis
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 gathers	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 choose	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 choose	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 choose	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 choose	aux
15	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grows	parataxis
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 master	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 these	case
18	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 which	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 master	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	23 master	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 master	cop
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 master	nmod:poss
23	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 choose	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present	Shame		blank	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blank=Location
2	gather	present	anger		there	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	choose	must	we			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		our master		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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