English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 14

It's said there's one predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that man is yet unborn, And long may it be so.”

Who acts: one, man · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Roman, mortal foe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 predestinate	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 predestinate	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 predestinate	nsubj
7	predestinate	predestinate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	To	to	PART	_	12 foe	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 foe	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foe	nmod:poss
11	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 foe	amod
12	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 predestinate	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 unborn	punct
14	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 unborn	cc
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 unborn	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 unborn	cop
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 unborn	advmod
19	unborn	unborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 long	cc
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 unborn	conj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 long	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 may	obj
25	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 unborn	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 be	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		Roman				tree rules
2	is	present	one		there		predestinate property	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	one not said here	Ettin's mortal foe				tree rules
4	is	present	that man			yet	unborn property	tree rules
5	be		that man not said here					tree rules
6	be	infinitive	that man not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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