Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 31

They knew only too well that the son of Uail was living, and they knew that their own sons would know no ease while that son lived; for they believed in those days that like breeds like, and that the son of Uail would be Uail with additions.

Who acts: women, son, own sons, days · What happens: know, live, believe, like, be · To what, where: ease, breeds, Uail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, son, own sons, days), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 living	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 living	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Uail	case
10	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 living	aux
12	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 know	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sons	amod
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 know	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 ease	det
24	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	obj
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 lived	mark
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lived	nsubj
28	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 believed	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 believed	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 believed	nsubj
32	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 days	case
34	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 days	det
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 believed	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 like	nsubj
37	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 days	acl:relcl
38	breeds	breed	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 like	obj
39	like	like	ADP	_	38 breeds	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Uail	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Uail	cc
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 Uail	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 son	det
44	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 Uail	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Uail	case
46	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 son	nmod
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 Uail	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 Uail	cop
49	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 additions	case
51	additions	addition	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 Uail	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	women = woman			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	live	past · progressive	the son of Uail				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	women = woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	know	would	women's own sons	no ease			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ease=Stimulus
5	live	past	that son				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	believe	past	women = woman		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	like	present	that days	breeds			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breed=Theme
8	is a	would	the son of Uail	Uail		with additions	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.

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