Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 39

He is not here or there, he is in all places at all times.

Who acts: rumour · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: places

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 (rumour), 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 here	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 here	advmod
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 there	cc
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 here	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 places	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 places	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 places	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 places	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 places	det
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 here	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 times	det
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 places	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	rumour					here property	tree rules
2	is	present	rumour			all places	time		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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