Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 38

I will go about my business,” he said to the waves, “and I will let those beings and monsters and the people of the Dog Heads go about their business.”

Who acts: I, Art, people · What happens: go, say, let · To what, where: beings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Art, people), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 business	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 business	nmod:poss
6	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 waves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waves	det
13	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 beings	det
21	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 let	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 monsters	cc
23	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 beings	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 go	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 Heads	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Heads	det
29	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Heads	compound
30	Heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 people	nmod
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 let	conj
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 business	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 business	nmod:poss
34	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	future	I		about my business	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Art		to the waves	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wave=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	let	future	I	that beings and monsters		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent being=Theme
4	go	present	the people of the Dog Heads		about people's business	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location

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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