--- title: “You have not considered,” the king replied, “that a soldier owes ob… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “You have not considered,” the king replied, “that a soldier owes obedience to his captain, and that, given the time and the place, Fionn was the captain and Goll was only a simple soldier.” Who acts: You, king, soldier, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/) / 35 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 35 “You have not considered,” the king replied, “that a soldier owes obedience to his captain, and that, given the time and the place, Fionn was the captain and Goll was only a simple soldier.” **Who acts:** You, king, soldier, Fionn, captain · **What happens:** not consider, reply, owe, give, be · **To what, where:** obedience, captain, that, simple soldier · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, king, soldier, Fionn), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:47:35 # text = “You have not considered,” the king replied, “that a soldier owes obedience to his captain, and that, given the time and the place, Fionn was the captain and Goll was only a simple soldier.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 owes owe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 obedience obedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **consider** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **owe** *in a quote* | present | a soldier | obedience | | | | to soldier's captain *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent obedience=Theme to captain=Goal | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | that | | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Fionn | the captain and Goll | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the captain and Goll | a simple soldier | | | | | 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/36/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/)