Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 9

“You ought to be at Dun Fiathac avenging the murder of your father,” replied the cleric, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for not having done it long ago.

Who acts: cleric · What happens: be, avenge, reply, not do, murder · To what, where: Dun, murder, father · 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 (cleric), 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	_	9 avenging	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ought	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 avenging	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	7 Dun	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Dun	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Dun	case
7	Dun	Dun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ought	xcomp
8	Fiathac	Fiathac	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Dun	flat
9	avenging	avenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 replied	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 murder	det
11	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 avenging	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 murder	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 avenging	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 avenging	punct
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cleric	det
19	cleric	cleric	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ashamed	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 ashamed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ought	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ought	nsubj
24	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ashamed	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	27 ashamed	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 ashamed	cop
27	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 replied	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 yourself	case
29	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 ashamed	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 done	case
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 done	advmod
32	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 done	aux
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 ashamed	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	obj
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 ago	advmod
36	ago	ago	ADV	_	33 done	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	to-infinitive			Dun		tree rules
2	avenge in a quote	ought		the murder of your father			tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	the cleric				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	ought	the cleric not said here			of yourself; ashamed property	tree rules
5	not do in a quote	gerund · perfect	the cleric not said here	murder		ago property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	murder in a quote			your father			nom murder «act transitive»: of=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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