Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

[This version of the death of Uail is not correct.

Who acts: version, Uail · What happens: not be, die

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (version, Uail), 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	_	11 correct	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 version	det
3	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 correct	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 death	det
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 version	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Uail	case
8	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 death	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 correct	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 correct	advmod
11	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 correct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	this version of the death of Uail					correct property	tree rules
2	die		Uail						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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