Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 42
“Even if you never heard of it before, you must do it now,” said Duv Laca, “for honour is longer than life.”
Who acts: you, Duv · What happens: not hear, do, say, be · To what, where: bargain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Duv), 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 | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 heard | advmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 heard | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Duv | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 longer | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 longer | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 honour | case |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 longer | obl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 longer | cop |
| 26 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 said | parataxis |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 longer | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | of bargain; before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | must | you | bargain | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Duv | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | for honour; than life; long property | tree rules |
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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