Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

They did not complain of this, for they loved every hair of Fionn’s head more than they loved their wives and children, and that was reasonable for there was never in the world a person more worthy of love than Fionn was.

Who acts: abysses, that, person · What happens: not complain, love, be, not be · To what, where: hair, wives, world

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abysses, that, person), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 complain	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 complain	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 complain	advmod
4	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 complain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 loved	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 complain	parataxis
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hair	det
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 head	case
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 head	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Fionn	case
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hair	nmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 loved	advmod
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 loved	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 loved	nsubj
20	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 loved	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wives	nmod:poss
22	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 loved	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 children	cc
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wives	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reasonable	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 reasonable	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 reasonable	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 reasonable	cop
29	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 complain	parataxis
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 reasonable	advcl
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 was	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 was	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 person	det
38	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 was	nsubj
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 worthy	advmod
40	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 person	amod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 love	case
42	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 worthy	obl
43	than	than	ADP	_	44 Fionn	case
44	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 person	nmod
45	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 complain	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 complain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not complain speech: other	past · do-support	abysses = abyss			of this	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	love	past	abysses = abyss	every hair of Fionn's head			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus
3	love	past	abysses = abyss	abysses's wives and children			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4	is	past	that			reasonable property	tree rules
5	be	past	that not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not be	past	a person than Fionn		the world		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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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