Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 71

He did not listen to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians, for all of these were in his wife, and something that was beyond these was in her also.

Who acts: head, poets · What happens: not listen, be, sing, say · To what, where: magicians · 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 (head, poets), 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 listen	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 listen	advmod
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 songs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 songs	det
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listen	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 poets	case
9	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 songs	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sayings	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sayings	det
12	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sayings	amod
13	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poets	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 magicians	case
15	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sayings	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 listen	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 these	case
20	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 all	nmod
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 all	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 were	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 something	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 something	cc
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 listen	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 something	acl:relcl
30	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	31 these	case
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 was	obl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 in	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	27 something	acl:relcl
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 also	nmod:poss
35	also	also	ADV	_	33 in	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · do-support	head		to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians; for all	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
2	be	past			in head's wife	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wife=Location
3	sing		poets or the curious sayings of magicians			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
4	say			magicians		nom saying «communication 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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