Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 2

This knowledge will be useful to those upon whom a similar duty should ever devolve.

Who acts: knowledge, similar duty · What happens: be, devolve

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knowledge, similar duty), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 knowledge	det
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 useful	cop
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 those	case
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 useful	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 whom	case
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 those	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 duty	det
11	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 duty	amod
12	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 devolve	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 devolve	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 devolve	advmod
15	devolve	devolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whom	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	this knowledge					to those; useful property	tree rules
2	devolve	should	a similar duty				ever		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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