Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 28

No man knows if he died in those distant ages when Finnian was Abbot of Moville, or if he still keeps his fort in Ulster, watching all things, and remembering them for the glory of God and the honour of Ireland.

Who acts: man, God · What happens: know, die, be, keep, watch, remember · To what, where: Finnian Abbot, fort, Ulster, things, Ireland

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, God), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 died	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 ages	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 ages	det
9	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ages	amod
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 Abbot	advmod
12	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Abbot	compound
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Abbot	cop
14	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Moville	case
16	Moville	Moville	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Abbot	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keeps	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 keeps	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 keeps	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keeps	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 keeps	advmod
22	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Abbot	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fort	nmod:poss
24	fort	fort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeps	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Ulster	case
26	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 keeps	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 watching	punct
28	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 keeps	advcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 things	det
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 watching	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remembering	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 remembering	cc
33	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 keeps	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 remembering	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 glory	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 glory	det
37	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remembering	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 God	case
39	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 glory	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 honour	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 honour	det
42	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 glory	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Ireland	case
44	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 honour	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	no man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die a condition, not said to happen	past	man			in that distant ages		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in age=Attribute
3	is a	past		Finnian Abbot			of Moville	tree rules
4	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	man	man's fort	Ulster	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fort=Theme in ulster=Location
5	watch	gerund	man not said here	all things				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
6	remember	gerund	man not said here	things = thing			for the glory of God and the honour of Ireland	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	glory		God					nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent
8	honour			Ireland				nom honour «state 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: «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.

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