Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 39
Indeed, he loved as well as venerated this master because of his unfailing kindness, his patience, his readiness to teach, and his skill in teaching.
Who acts: poet · What happens: love, venerate, teach · To what, where: master
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 (poet), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 loved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 8 venerated | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 8 | venerated | venerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 loved | conj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 master | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 venerated | obj |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 kindness | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | unfailing | unfailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindness | compound |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 venerated | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 patience | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 patience | nmod:poss |
| 18 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindness | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 readiness | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 readiness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindness | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 teach | mark |
| 23 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 readiness | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 skill | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 skill | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 skill | nmod:poss |
| 27 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 teaching | case |
| 29 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 skill | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | poet | indeed property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | venerate | participle | poet not said here | this master | because poet's unfailing kindness and poet's patience and poet's readiness | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | poet not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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