Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 2

Other than himself no person was abroad, for on the night of the Feast of Samhain none but a madman would quit the shelter of a house even if it were on fire; for whatever disasters might be within a house would be as nothing to the calamities without it.

Who acts: person, madman, disasters · What happens: be, quit · To what, where: shelter, fire

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 (person, madman, disasters), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 himself	case
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Other	obl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 himself	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 abroad	cop
7	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	5 person	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 night	case
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Feast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Feast	det
15	Feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 none	case
17	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 none	compound
18	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 Feast	nmod
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 quit	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 madman	det
21	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 quit	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 quit	aux
23	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 none	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shelter	det
25	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 quit	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 house	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shelter	nmod
29	even	even	ADV	_	34 fire	advmod
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 fire	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fire	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fire	cop
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 fire	case
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 quit	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 nothing	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 whatever	case
37	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 nothing	obl
38	disasters	disaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 nothing	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 house	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 house	cop
41	within	within	ADP	_	43 house	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 house	det
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 disasters	nmod
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 nothing	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 nothing	cop
46	as	as	ADP	_	47 nothing	case
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 quit	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 calamities	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 calamities	det
50	calamities	calamity	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 nothing	nmod
51	without	without	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 calamities	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Other	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	no person not said here			abroad property	tree rules
2	quit	would	a madman	the shelter of a house			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Source
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	madman		fire		tree rules
4	is	might				within a house	tree rules
5	is	would	disasters			as nothing; for whatever; to the calamities without madman	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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