Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7

For he did not like to be in the wrong, and he did not wish that any person should have an unsatisfied claim upon him.

Who acts: king, person · What happens: not like, be, not wish, have · To what, where: unsatisfied claim

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 (king, person), 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	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	10 wrong	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 wrong	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wrong	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wrong	det
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 like	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wish	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wish	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wish	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wish	advmod
16	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wish	advcl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 claim	det
23	unsatisfied	unsatisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 claim	amod
24	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 claim	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	king			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	to-infinitive	king not said here		wrong property	tree rules
3	not wish	past · do-support	king			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	have	should	any person	a unsatisfied claim	upon king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=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.

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