Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 38

And, without thinking it, he thought that had the positions been changed he would have known that nothing could retain the one that was absent.

Who acts: Chief, nothing, one · What happens: think, change, know, retain, be · To what, where: feast, that, Chief, one · 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 (Chief, nothing, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 And	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 thinking	mark
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 thought	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 changed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 changed	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 positions	det
12	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 changed	nsubj:pass
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 changed	aux:pass
14	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 thought	ccomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 known	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 known	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 known	aux
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 changed	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 retain	mark
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 retain	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 retain	aux
22	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 known	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 retain	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 absent	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 absent	cop
27	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	Chief not said here	feast		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Chief			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	change	past · perfect · passive		that		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	know	would · perfect · passive		Chief		tree rules
5	retain	could	nothing	the one		tree rules
6	is	past	the one		absent 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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