Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7

Still this band of young bards would have been of infinite interest to Fionn, not on account of what they had learned, but because of what they knew.

Who acts: band, guardians · What happens: be, learn, know, account · To what, where: Fionn, infinite interest

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band, guardians), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 band	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 band	det
3	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 interest	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bards	case
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bards	amod
6	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 band	nmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 interest	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 interest	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 interest	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 interest	case
11	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 interest	amod
12	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Fionn	case
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 interest	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 account	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 account	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 account	case
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 interest	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 account	nmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 learned	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 learned	aux
23	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 what	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 what	cc
26	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 what	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 because	fixed
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 interest	conj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 interest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	this band of young bards		Fionn	of infinite interest and account of infinite interest and account of infinite interest	tree rules
2	learn	past · perfect	guardians = guardian				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	guardians = guardian				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	account			infinite interest and account of infinite interest and account			nom account «communication 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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