Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 38

If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and done to death with hunger, to be let in, I do not think much of your language or your faith.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not allow, benumb, do, let in, not think · To what, where: bird, much

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 allow	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 allow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 think	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allow	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 benumbed	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 benumbed	aux:pass
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 benumbed	aux:pass
11	benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bird	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 cold	case
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 benumbed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 done	cc
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 benumbed	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 hunger	case
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	aux:pass
24	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 allow	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	24 let	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 allow	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 think	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 think	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 think	advmod
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 think	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 language	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 language	nmod:poss
34	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 much	nmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 faith	cc
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 faith	nmod:poss
37	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 language	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not allow a condition, not said to happen	future	you		the bird		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary
2	benumb	present · passive		the bird		with cold	tree rules
3	do	participle				to death; with hunger	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	let in	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»
5	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I	much of your language or your faith			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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