Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

He was fond of them and proud of them, but if one were to search the Shi’s of Ireland or the land of Ireland, the equal of these four would not be found for ugliness and bad humour and twisted temperaments.

Who acts: Conaran, one · What happens: be, search, not find · To what, where: Shi, these

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 (Conaran, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fond	cop
3	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fond	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 proud	cc
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fond	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 proud	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 equal	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 equal	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 search	mark
13	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 search	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 search	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 search	mark
16	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 equal	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Shi	det
18	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 search	obj
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Shi	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Ireland	case
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Shi	nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 land	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Shi	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Ireland	case
26	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 land	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 search	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 equal	det
29	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fond	conj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 found	mark
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 found	nsubj:pass
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 found	nsubj:pass
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 found	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 found	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 equal	advcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 ugliness	case
38	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 found	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 humour	cc
40	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 humour	amod
41	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ugliness	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 temperaments	cc
43	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 temperaments	amod
44	temperaments	temperament	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ugliness	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Conaran		of daughters = daughter; fond property	tree rules
2	be		Conaran not said here		of daughters = daughter	tree rules
3	search a condition, not said to happen	past	one	the Shi of Ireland or the land of Ireland		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent shi=Location
4	be		Conaran not said here			tree rules
5	not find	would · passive		these	for ugliness and bad humour and twisted temperaments	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for ugliness=Beneficiary

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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