Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4

It will be wondered why his own mother did not train him in the first natural savageries of existence, but she could not do it.

Who acts: own mother, mother · What happens: wonder, not train, not do · To what, where: fighting, Lia, first natural savageries

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own mother, mother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wondered	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wondered	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 wondered	aux:pass
4	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 train	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 train	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 train	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 train	advmod
11	train	train	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wondered	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 train	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 savageries	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 savageries	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 savageries	amod
16	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 savageries	amod
17	savageries	savagery	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 train	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 existence	case
19	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 savageries	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 do	advmod
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wondered	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	future · passive		fighting		tree rules
2	not train	past · do-support	Lia's own mother	Lia	the first natural savageries of existence	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not do	could	mother	fighting		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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