Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 32

Surely it is a bounden duty of those who are in the position to put on record any such utterances of the folk-imagination of the Celts before it is too late.

Who acts: country · What happens: be, put, utter, imagine · To what, where: bounden duty, position, such utterances, record, folk imagination, Celts

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 duty	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 duty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 duty	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 duty	det
5	bounden	bounden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 duty	amod
6	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 those	case
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 duty	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 position	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 position	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 position	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 position	det
13	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 those	appos
14	to	to	PART	_	15 put	mark
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 position	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 record	case
17	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 utterances	det
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 utterances	amod
20	utterances	utterance	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 imagination	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 imagination	det
23	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 imagination	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 folk	punct
25	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 utterances	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Celts	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Celts	det
28	Celts	Celt	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 imagination	nmod
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 late	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 late	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 late	cop
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 late	advmod
33	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 put	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 duty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	country	a bounden duty		of those; surely property	tree rules
2	is	present			the position		tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive	country not said here	any such utterances of the folk imagination of the Celts	record		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme on record=Destination
4	is	present	country			late property	tree rules
5	utter			the folk imagination of the Celts			nom utterance «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	imagine			the Celts			nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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