Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 72

Play up with you, why should you be silent?

Who acts: you · What happens: play up, be

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Play	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Play	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 silent	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 silent	advmod
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 silent	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 silent	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 silent	cop
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Play	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play up	imperative	you not said here					with you	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent
2	is	should	you					silent property	tree rules

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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