Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28

“My good friend, you have work enough to carry the two tons of mud that are plastered on each of your coat-tails, to say nothing of your weighty boots.”

Who acts: good friend, work · What happens: have, carry, plaster, say · To what, where: work, two tons, mud, each, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (good friend, work), 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 have	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 carry	mark
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tons	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tons	nummod
14	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 mud	case
16	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tons	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 plastered	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 plastered	aux:pass
19	plastered	plaster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mud	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 plastered	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 tails	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tails	nmod:poss
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tails	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 coat	punct
26	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 each	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 carry	conj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 say	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 boots	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 boots	nmod:poss
33	weighty	weighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boots	amod
34	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nothing	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	My good friend	work		enough property	tree rules
2	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	work not said here	the two tons of mud			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Theme
3	plaster in a quote	present · passive		mud	each		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on each=Destination
4	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	work not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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