Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 10

Fear cannot be where knowledge is, and Fionn was not fearful.

Who acts: knowledge, Fionn · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knowledge, Fionn), 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	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 is	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 is	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 is	cop
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 is	advmod
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fear	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fearful	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fearful	cc
10	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fearful	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fearful	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fearful	advmod
13	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fear	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	knowledge					be property	tree rules
2	not is	past	Fionn					fearful property	tree rules

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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