Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 5

I have found some difficulty in dealing with Campbell's excessive use of the second person singular, "If thou thouest him some two or three times, 'tis well," but beyond that it is wearisome.

Who acts: I, thou, difficulty, Campbell · What happens: find, deal, thou, be, use · To what, where: difficulty, person, second person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou, difficulty, Campbell), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 difficulty	det
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 dealing	mark
7	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 use	case
9	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 use	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Campbell	case
11	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 use	amod
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dealing	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 person	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 person	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 person	amod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	nmod
17	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 person	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thouest	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 thouest	punct
20	If	if	SCONJ	_	22 thouest	mark
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 thouest	nsubj
22	thouest	thou	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thouest	obj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 times	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 three	cc
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 two	conj
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thouest	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tis	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 tis	punct
31	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 times	conj
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 tis	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 well	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 thouest	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 wearisome	cc
36	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	40 wearisome	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 wearisome	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wearisome	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 wearisome	cop
40	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect	I	some difficulty			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent difficulty=Attribute clause=Theme
2	deal	gerund	I not said here			with Campbell's excessive use of the second person	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with use=Theme
3	thou a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou	person	time		tree rules
4	is	present	difficulty			wearisome property	tree rules
5	use		Campbell	the second person			nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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