Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22

“Some one must fight them,” said Fiachna Finn, “but no more of my men shall die until I fight myself; for if I am fated to die, I will die and I cannot escape it, and if it is the sheep’s fate to die, then die they will; for there is no man can avoid destiny, and there is no sheep can dodge it either.”

Who acts: one, Fiachna Finn, men, vast, sheep fate, man · What happens: fight, say, die, be, not escape, avoid · To what, where: sheep, Fiachna Finn, vast, destiny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Fiachna Finn, men, vast), 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 fight	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fight	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fight	aux
5	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fight	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fight	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 fight	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Finn	compound
11	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 more	cc
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 die	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 men	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 men	nmod:poss
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 die	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 die	aux
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 fight	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fight	nsubj
24	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 die	advcl
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 fight	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 fated	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 fated	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 fated	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fated	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fated	cop
31	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 die	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 die	mark
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fated	csubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 die	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 die	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 die	aux
37	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 die	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 escape	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 escape	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 escape	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 escape	advmod
42	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 die	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 escape	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 die	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 die	cc
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 die	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sheep	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 sheep	cop
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sheep	det
50	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fate	compound
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 sheep	case
52	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 die	nsubj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 die	mark
54	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 die	punct
56	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 die	advmod
57	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 die	conj
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 will	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 die	ccomp
60	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 is	punct
61	for	for	ADP	_	63 is	case
62	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	63 is	expl
63	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 avoid	advcl
64	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	65 man	det
65	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 avoid	nsubj
66	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 avoid	aux
67	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
68	destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 avoid	obj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 is	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 is	cc
71	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	72 is	expl
72	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
73	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	74 sheep	det
74	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 dodge	nsubj
75	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	76 dodge	aux
76	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	72 is	ccomp
77	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 dodge	obj
78	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	76 dodge	advmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	72 is	punct
80	”	"	PUNCT	_	72 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	must	some one	sheep				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Fiachna Finn					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die in a quote	shall	my men					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fight in a quote	present	Fiachna Finn = finn	Fiachna Finn = finn				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Co-Agent
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Fiachna Finn = finn				fated property	tree rules
6	die in a quote	to-infinitive						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	die in a quote	future	Fiachna Finn = finn					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	not escape in a quote	can	Fiachna Finn = finn	vast				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Initial_Location
9	is in a quote	present	vast				's the sheep	tree rules
10	die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	sheep fate					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
11	die in a quote	infinitive	sheep fate not said here			then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
12	be in a quote	present	no man not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	avoid in a quote	can	no man	destiny				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent destiny=Location
14	be in a quote	present			there			tree rules
15	dodge in a quote	can	no sheep	vast			either property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=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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