The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 87

“O Dil-aram! such a vengeance is not manly.

Who acts: Dil · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dil), 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	_	12 manly	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 Dil	discourse
3	Dil	Dil	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 manly	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 aram	punct
5	aram	aram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Dil	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Dil	punct
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 vengeance	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vengeance	det
9	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 manly	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 manly	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 manly	advmod
12	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 manly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Dil and aram					manly 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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