Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 33

They had no doubt of that, and every action of their lives was based on that certainty.

Who acts: sons, lives · What happens: have, base, doubt, act · To what, where: doubt, action, certainty, that

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 (sons, lives), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 doubt	det
4	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 doubt	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 based	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 based	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 action	det
10	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 based	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lives	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lives	nmod:poss
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 action	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 based	aux:pass
15	based	base	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 certainty	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 certainty	det
18	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 based	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	sons = son	no doubt of that		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
2	base	past · passive		every action of sons's lives	that certainty	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on certainty=Source
3	doubt			that		nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	act		sons's lives			nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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