Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 9

For we are not freedom, we are control, and we must submit to our own function ere we can exercise it.

Who acts: we · What happens: not be, be, submit, exercise · To what, where: control, own function ere

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 (we), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 freedom	case
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 freedom	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 freedom	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 freedom	advmod
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 control	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 freedom	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 control	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 control	cop
9	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 submit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 submit	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 submit	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 submit	aux
14	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 control	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 ere	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ere	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ere	amod
18	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ere	compound
19	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 submit	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 exercise	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 exercise	aux
22	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ere	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 exercise	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 control	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	we			for freedom	tree rules
2	is a	present	we	control			tree rules
3	submit	must	we	control not said here	our own function ere		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent control=Theme to ere=Recipient
4	exercise	can	we	control			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/9/