Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 51

“Either she is a woman of this world to be punished, or she is a woman of the Shi’ to be banished, but this holy morning she was in the Shi’, and her arms were about the neck of Flann.”

Who acts: terror, arms · What happens: be, punish, banish · To what, where: woman, Shi

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, arms), 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	_	12 punished	punct
2	Either	either	CCONJ	_	6 woman	cc:preconj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 woman	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 punished	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woman	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 punished	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 punished	aux:pass
12	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 woman	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 woman	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 punished	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Shi	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Shi	det
21	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 woman	nmod
22	’	's	PART	_	21 Shi	case
23	to	to	PART	_	25 banished	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 banished	aux:pass
25	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 woman	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Shi	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 Shi	cc
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 morning	det
29	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Shi	obl:unmarked
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 Shi	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Shi	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 Shi	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Shi	det
35	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 punished	obl
36	’	's	PART	_	35 Shi	case
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 neck	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 neck	cc
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arms	nmod:poss
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 neck	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 neck	cop
42	about	about	ADP	_	44 neck	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 neck	det
44	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 punished	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Flann	case
46	Flann	Flann	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 neck	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 punished	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 punished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	terror	a woman			of this world	tree rules
2	punish in a quote	to-infinitive · passive						vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»
3	is a in a quote	present	terror	a woman			of the Shi	tree rules
4	banish in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	terror not said here					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»
5	is in a quote	past	terror		the Shi	morning		tree rules
6	is in a quote	past	terror's arms				about the neck; of Flann	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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