Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

He was not ashamed of it; he merely thought it was finished, although in truth it was only beginning, for it is that perpetual beginning of the past that we call the future.

Who acts: future, past, we · What happens: not be, think, be, begin, call · To what, where: truth, past · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (future, past, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ashamed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ashamed	advmod
4	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ashamed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
9	merely	merely	ADV	_	10 thought	advmod
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	cop
13	finished	finished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thought	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beginning	punct
15	although	although	SCONJ	_	21 beginning	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 truth	case
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beginning	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beginning	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 beginning	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 beginning	advmod
21	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thought	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beginning	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	28 beginning	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 beginning	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 beginning	cop
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 beginning	mark
27	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beginning	compound
28	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beginning	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 past	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 past	det
31	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beginning	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 call	obj
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 call	nsubj
34	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 past	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 future	det
36	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 call	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	future				of past; ashamed property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	future				merely property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	past				finished property	tree rules
4	begin	past · progressive	past		truth			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is	present	past			for perpetual beginning	of the past	tree rules
6	call	present	we	the past				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme future=Result

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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