Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 55
But perhaps it was suppressed out of delicacy for Fionn, for if Goll could be accused of ostentation, Fionn was open to the uglier charge of jealousy.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: suppress, accuse, be, charge · To what, where: side, delicacy, Goll, ostentation, jealousy
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 (Fionn), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 suppressed | cc |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 suppressed | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suppressed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suppressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | suppressed | suppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 delicacy | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 delicacy | case |
| 8 | delicacy | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suppressed | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Fionn | case |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 delicacy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 accused | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 accused | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 accused | mark |
| 14 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 accused | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 accused | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 accused | aux:pass |
| 17 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 suppressed | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ostentation | case |
| 19 | ostentation | ostentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accused | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 open | punct |
| 21 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 open | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 open | cop |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ostentation | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 charge | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 charge | det |
| 26 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 charge | amod |
| 27 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 open | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 jealousy | case |
| 29 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 charge | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppress | past · passive | side | delicacy for Fionn | perhaps property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient out delicacy=Location | |||
| 2 | accuse a condition, not said to happen | could · passive | Goll | of ostentation | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme of ostentation=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Fionn | ostentation not said here | to the uglier charge of jealousy; open property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | charge | jealousy | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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