Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 29

“I must go indeed,” the boy replied, “for it is to do good I am required, and no person may shirk such a requirement.”

Who acts: boy, treasure, person · What happens: go, reply, be, require, shirk · To what, where: boy, requirement · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, treasure, person), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	nsubj
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 required	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 required	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 required	advcl
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 do	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 required	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 required	aux:pass
21	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 replied	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shirk	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shirk	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 person	det
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shirk	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 shirk	aux
27	shirk	shirk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 requirement	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 requirement	det
30	requirement	requirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shirk	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 shirk	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 shirk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	must	the boy = boy		indeed property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	treasure		do property	tree rules
4	require in a quote	present · passive		the boy = boy		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
5	shirk in a quote	may	no person	such requirement		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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