Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1

Just as at one time he could not be parted from Saeve, so now he could not be separated from this boy.

What happens: not part, not separate · To what, where: he, Saeve

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 as	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	10 parted	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 time	nummod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parted	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 parted	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 parted	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 parted	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 parted	aux:pass
10	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Saeve	case
12	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 parted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 separated	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	20 separated	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 separated	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 separated	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 separated	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 separated	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 separated	aux:pass
20	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 parted	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 boy	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 separated	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not part	could · passive		he			time	from Saeve	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from saeve=Co-Patient
2	not separate	could · passive		Saeve			now	from this boy	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from boy=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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