Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 31

“Let each man be silent as a dead man.”

Who acts: you, man · What happens: let, be · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 silent	cop
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Let	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silent	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	each man					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	is in a quote	infinitive	each man not said here					as a dead man; silent 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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