Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 7
“We do not wish to slay this prince for our pleasure,” they argued, “but for the safety of Ireland he must be killed.”
Who acts: We, protections, our · What happens: not wish, slay, argue, kill, please · To what, where: prince, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, protections, our), 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 | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 argued | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 slay | mark |
| 7 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slay | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 pleasure | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 argued | nsubj |
| 16 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 killed | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 killed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 killed | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 safety | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 safety | det |
| 22 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 killed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ireland | case |
| 24 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 safety | nmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 killed | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 killed | aux:pass |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 argued | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 argued | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | We | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | this prince | for our pleasure | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | |||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | past | protections = protection | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | must · passive | Ireland | for the safety of Ireland | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | please in a quote | our | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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