Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 14

Then Iollan would go back to the world of men, and Uct Dealv would return to her occupations in the Land of the Ever Young.

Who acts: Iollan, Uct · What happens: go back, return, occupy · To what, where: Land

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan, Uct), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
2	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 world	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 return	cc
13	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 return	nsubj
14	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Uct	flat
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 occupations	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 occupations	nmod:poss
19	occupations	occupation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 return	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 Land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Land	det
22	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Ever	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Ever	det
25	Ever	Ever	PROPN	_	22 Land	nmod
26	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Ever	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	would	Iollan		then	to the world of men result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result
2	return	would	Uct	the Land of the Ever		to Uct's occupations result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to occupation=Result
3	occupy		Uct				nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=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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