Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 58

He could not bear to be away from her.

Who acts: Saeve · What happens: not bear, be

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 (Saeve), 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 bear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bear	advmod
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 away	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 away	cop
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 bear	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 away	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	could	Saeve						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	to-infinitive						from Fionn; away property	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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