Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4

“For,” said he, “there are very good tales among those ones, and it would be a pity if the people who come after us should be ignorant of what happened long ago, and of the deeds of their fathers.”

Who acts: neighbourhood, good tales, Gospel, people · What happens: say, be, come, happen · To what, where: pity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbourhood, good tales, Gospel, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 For	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 For	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tales	amod
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	nsubj
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 ones	case
15	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 ones	det
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pity	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pity	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pity	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pity	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 pity	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pity	det
23	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 are	obl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 ignorant	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ignorant	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 come	nsubj
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 people	acl:relcl
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 come	obl
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 ignorant	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 ignorant	cop
33	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pity	advcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 what	case
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 ignorant	obl
36	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 what	acl:relcl
37	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 ago	advmod
38	ago	ago	ADV	_	36 happened	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 deeds	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 deeds	cc
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 deeds	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 deeds	det
43	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 fathers	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 fathers	nmod:poss
46	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 deeds	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 deeds	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	neighbourhood					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does in a quote	present	good tales		there		among that ones	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among one=Location
3	is a in a quote	would	Gospel	a pity				tree rules
4	come in a quote	present	the people			after us		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	the people				of a pity; ignorant property	tree rules
6	happen in a quote	past					ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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