Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 43

Nor is there any reason to complain or to be astonished at these things, for it is a mutual world we llve in, a give-and-take world, and there is no great harm in it.

Who acts: Nor, Finn, we, give, great harm · What happens: be, complain, astonish, llve, take · To what, where: reason, things, mutual world, world

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 (Nor, Finn, we, give), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 complain	mark
7	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 astonished	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	11 astonished	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 astonished	aux:pass
11	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 complain	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 things	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 things	det
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 astonished	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 world	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	21 world	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 world	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 world	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 world	det
20	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 world	amod
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 astonished	obl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 llve	nsubj
23	llve	llve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 world	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 llve	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 give	det
27	give	give	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reason	parataxis
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 take	cc
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 give	acl:relcl
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 is	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 is	cc
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 is	expl
36	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	parataxis
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 harm	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 harm	amod
39	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 is	nsubj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 harm	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nor	any reason			tree rules
2	complain speech: other	to-infinitive					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	astonish	to-infinitive · passive			this things		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	is	present	Finn			for a mutual world	tree rules
5	llve	present	we	a mutual world not said here			tree rules
6	take	infinitive	a give not said here	world			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
7	be	present	no great harm in Finn		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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