Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 4

It must have been an ill deed in truth, for it was in a very rage of revenge that Aillen came yearly at the permitted time to ravage Tara.

Who acts: chief, Aillen · What happens: be, come, permit, ravage · To what, where: ill deed, truth, rage, that, Tara

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, Aillen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deed	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 deed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 deed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 deed	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deed	det
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deed	amod
7	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 truth	case
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deed	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rage	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 rage	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rage	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rage	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 rage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rage	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 rage	advmod
17	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deed	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 revenge	case
19	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rage	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 came	obl
21	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rage	parataxis
23	yearly	yearly	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ravage	mark
29	ravage	ravage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 time	acl
30	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ravage	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 deed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must · perfect	chief	a ill deed and a rage	truth			tree rules
2	is	past	chief		a rage		of revenge	tree rules
3	come	past	Aillen	that		time	yearly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	permit	participle						vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	ravage	to-infinitive	Aillen not said here	Tara				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tara=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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