Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 1

All desires save one are fleeting, but that one lasts for ever.

Who acts: desires, one · What happens: save, be, last

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desires, one), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 desires	det
2	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 save	nsubj
3	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fleeting	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fleeting	cop
6	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 save	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lasts	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lasts	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 one	mark
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 lasts	nsubj
11	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 save	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 ever	case
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 lasts	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	save	present	all desires		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	one	fleeting property	tree rules
3	last	present	one		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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