Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 26
“A cordial for women, a disease for men, a state of wretchedness.”
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cordial | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cordial | det |
| 3 | cordial | cordial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 women | case |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cordial | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 disease | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disease | det |
| 8 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disease | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 state | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 state | det |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wretchedness | case |
| 15 | wretchedness | wretchedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 state | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cordial | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cordial | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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