Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1

It is part of the education of a prince to be a good chess player, and to continually exercise his mind in view of the judgements that he will be called upon to give and the knotty, tortuous, and perplexing matters which will obscure the issues which he must judge.

Who acts: It, perplexing matters, issues, his · What happens: be, exercise, call, give, perplex, obscure · To what, where: part, good chess player, mind, view, he, knotty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, perplexing matters, issues, his), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 education	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 education	det
6	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 education	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	15 player	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 player	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 player	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 player	amod
14	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 player	compound
15	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prince	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 exercise	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 exercise	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	20 exercise	mark
19	continually	continually	ADV	_	20 exercise	advmod
20	exercise	exercise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 part	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mind	nmod:poss
22	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exercise	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 view	case
24	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exercise	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 judgements	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 judgements	det
27	judgements	judgement	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 view	nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 called	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 called	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 called	aux:pass
32	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 judgements	acl
33	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	35 give	mark
34	to	to	PART	_	35 give	mark
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 called	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 knotty	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 knotty	det
38	knotty	knotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 give	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tortuous	punct
40	tortuous	tortuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 knotty	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 obscure	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 obscure	cc
43	perplexing	perplex	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 matters	amod
44	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 obscure	nsubj
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 obscure	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 obscure	aux
47	obscure	obscure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 knotty	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 issues	det
49	issues	issue	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 obscure	obj
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 judge	nsubj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 judge	nsubj
52	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 judge	aux
53	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 issues	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	part		of the education of a prince	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a good chess player			tree rules
3	exercise	to-infinitive		his mind	view of the judgements	continually property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	call	future · passive		he			tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive		the knotty			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knotty=Theme
6	perplex	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	obscure	future	perplexing matters	the issues			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent issue=Patient
8	judge	must	the issues				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
9	educate			a prince			nom education «act transitive»: of=patient
10	mind		his = he				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
11	view			the judgements			nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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