Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7

That finished, he left the victorious Fianna and returned swiftly to the plain of Allen, for he could not bear to be one unnecessary day parted from Saeve.

Who acts: That, Ireland · What happens: finish, leave, return, not bear, be, part · To what, where: victorious Fianna, one unnecessary day

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 (That, Ireland), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fianna	det
7	victorious	victorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Fianna	amod
8	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 returned	cc
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	conj
11	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	10 returned	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 plain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plain	det
14	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Allen	case
16	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 plain	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bear	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 bear	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bear	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bear	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bear	advmod
22	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 returned	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	27 day	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 day	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
26	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bear	obl:unmarked
28	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 day	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 Saeve	case
30	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 parted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past	That			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	leave	past	Ireland	the victorious Fianna		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fianna=Theme
3	return	past	That not said here		to the plain of Allen result; swiftly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to plain=Result
4	not bear	could	Ireland			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	to-infinitive		one unnecessary day		tree rules
6	part	participle		one unnecessary day not said here	from Saeve	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from saeve=Co-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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