Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 15

And the enforced seclusion wrought on the minds of the servants, while the cessation of all work banded them together in small groups that whispered and discussed and disputed.

Who acts: enforced seclusion, small groups · What happens: enforce, wrought, band, whisper, discuss, dispute · To what, where: enforced seclusion, minds, small groups, servants, work

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 (enforced seclusion, small groups), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 banded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seclusion	det
3	enforced	enforce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seclusion	amod
4	seclusion	seclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 banded	nsubj
5	wrought	wrought	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seclusion	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 minds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 minds	det
8	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrought	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 servants	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 servants	det
11	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 minds	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cessation	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 cessation	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cessation	det
15	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seclusion	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 work	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 work	det
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cessation	nmod
19	banded	band	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 banded	obj
21	together	together	ADV	_	19 banded	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 groups	case
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 groups	amod
24	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 banded	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 whispered	nsubj
26	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 groups	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 discussed	cc
28	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whispered	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 disputed	cc
30	disputed	dispute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whispered	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 banded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enforce	participle					vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	wrought	participle		the enforced seclusion and the cessation of all work not said here	the minds of the servants		tree rules
3	band	past	the enforced seclusion and the cessation of all work	minds = mind	small groups	together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	whisper speech: assert	past	small groups				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	discuss speech: other	past	small groups not said here				vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dispute	past	small groups not said here				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mind			the servants			nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	cease			all work			nom cessation «event transitive»: of=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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