Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 88

Fin, even although he and you are enemies, would scorn not to treat you kindly in his own house; and, indeed, if I didn't do it even in his absence, he would not be pleased with me."

Who acts: Cucullin, Fin, I · What happens: be, scorn, not treat, not do, not be, absent · To what, where: enemies, you, own house, house, absence

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cucullin, Fin, 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	Fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scorn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 enemies	punct
3	even	even	ADV	_	9 enemies	advmod
4	although	although	SCONJ	_	9 enemies	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 enemies	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 you	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 he	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 enemies	cop
9	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fin	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fin	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 scorn	aux
12	scorn	scorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 treat	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 treat	mark
15	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 scorn	advcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 treat	obj
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	15 treat	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 house	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 house	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 treat	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 indeed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 indeed	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 scorn	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 do	advmod
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 scorn	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	obj
33	even	even	ADV	_	36 absence	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 absence	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 absence	nmod:poss
36	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pleased	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 pleased	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 pleased	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 pleased	advmod
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 pleased	cop
42	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scorn	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 pleased	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 scorn	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scorn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cucullin	enemies				tree rules
2	scorn	would	Fin and enemies				indeed property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not treat	to-infinitive	Fin and enemies not said here		you	Cucullin's own house	kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not do a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	I	house		Cucullin's absence		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	not is	would	Cucullin				with me; pleased property	tree rules
6	absent		Cucullin					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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