Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23

But he saw that not even beloved Caelte understood the meaning of that, and he knew sadly and yet proudly that what he meant could not be explained by any one and could not be comprehended by any one.

Who acts: lord, Caelte, one · What happens: see, not belov, understand, know, mean, not explain · To what, where: meaning, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, Caelte, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 saw	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 understood	mark
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 beloved	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 beloved	advmod
7	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 understood	advcl
8	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 understood	nsubj
9	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meaning	det
11	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 understood	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 meaning	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
18	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	17 knew	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 proudly	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 proudly	advmod
21	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	18 sadly	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 explained	mark
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 explained	nsubj:outer
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meant	nsubj
25	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 explained	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 explained	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 explained	aux:pass
29	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 knew	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 one	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 explained	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 comprehended	cc
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 comprehended	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 comprehended	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 comprehended	aux:pass
37	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 explained	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 one	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 comprehended	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	lord			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not belov	participle	Caelte not said here			tree rules
3	understand	past	Caelte	the meaning of that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
4	know	past	lord		sadly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	mean	past	lord			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	not explain speech: assert	could · passive	any one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
7	not comprehend	could · passive	any one			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	mean			that		nom meaning «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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