Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 7

The mind flinches even from the control of natural law, and how much more from the despotism of its own separated likenesses, for if another can control me that other has usurped me, has become me, and how terribly I seem diminished by the seeming addition!

Who acts: mind, another, I · What happens: flinch, separate, control, usurp, become, seem · To what, where: control, despotism, me, other

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, another, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mind	det
2	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flinches	nsubj
3	flinches	flinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 control	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 control	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 control	det
7	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flinches	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 law	case
9	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 law	amod
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 control	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 despotism	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 despotism	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 despotism	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 despotism	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 despotism	det
18	despotism	despotism	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flinches	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 likenesses	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 likenesses	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 likenesses	amod
22	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 likenesses	amod
23	likenesses	likeness	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 despotism	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 control	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 control	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 control	mark
27	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	29 control	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 control	aux
29	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flinches	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 control	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 usurped	mark
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 usurped	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 usurped	aux
34	usurped	usurp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 control	advcl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 usurped	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 become	punct
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 become	aux
38	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 usurped	advcl
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 become	iobj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 diminished	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 diminished	cc
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 terribly	advmod
43	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	46 diminished	advmod
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 seem	nsubj
45	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 terribly	parataxis
46	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flinches	conj
47	by	by	ADP	_	50 addition	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 addition	det
49	seeming	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 addition	amod
50	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 diminished	obl
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 flinches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	flinch	present	the mind	the control of natural law		the despotism of despotism's own separated likenesses		tree rules
2	separate	participle						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	control a condition, not said to happen	can	another	me				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	usurp	present · perfect · passive		other				tree rules
5	become	present · perfect			me			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient i=Result
6	seem	present	I					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	diminish	participle	the mind not said here				by the seeming addition; terribly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	seem	gerund						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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