Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 8

Hard is the matter you require of me, but I will lose my own life, and the life of my sons, or else I will do the pleasure of the king."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, require, lose, do, please · To what, where: matter, life, own life, pleasure, king

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, 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	Hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 matter	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 matter	det
4	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 require	nsubj
6	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 require	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lose	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 lose	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lose	aux
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 require	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 life	amod
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 life	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 life	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 life	det
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sons	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sons	nmod:poss
23	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 life	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 do	cc
26	else	else	ADV	_	29 do	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sons	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pleasure	det
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 king	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pleasure	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 require	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 require	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the matter	hard property	tree rules
2	require	present	you	the life of my sons	of me	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	lose	future	I	my own life		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
4	do	future	I	the pleasure of the king	else property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Eventuality
5	please			the king		nom pleasure «feeling 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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