Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11

In the Shi’ matrimony is recorded as being parallel in every respect with earth-marriage, and the desire which urges to it seems to be as violent and inconstant as it is with us; but in the Many-Coloured Land marriage is but a contemplation of beauty, a brooding and meditation wherein all grosser desire is unknown and children are born to sinless parents.

Who acts: desire, grosser desire · What happens: record, be, urge, seem, bear · To what, where: matrimony, respect, marriage, contemplation, Coloured Land marriage, children

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 (desire, grosser desire), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 matrimony	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Shi	det
3	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 matrimony	nmod:poss
4	’	's	PART	_	3 Shi	case
5	matrimony	matrimony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recorded	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 recorded	aux:pass
7	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 parallel	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 parallel	cop
10	parallel	parallel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 recorded	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 respect	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 respect	det
13	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parallel	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 marriage	case
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marriage	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 earth	punct
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 respect	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seems	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seems	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 desire	det
21	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seems	nsubj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 urges	nsubj
23	urges	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 desire	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 urges	obl
26	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 recorded	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	30 violent	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 violent	cop
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 violent	case
30	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seems	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 inconstant	cc
32	inconstant	inconstant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 violent	conj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 us	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 us	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 us	cop
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 us	case
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 inconstant	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 contemplation	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 contemplation	cc
40	in	in	ADP	_	46 marriage	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 marriage	det
42	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Coloured	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 Many	punct
44	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 marriage	amod
45	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 marriage	compound
46	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 contemplation	obl
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 contemplation	cop
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 contemplation	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 contemplation	det
50	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recorded	parataxis
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 beauty	case
52	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 contemplation	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 brooding	punct
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 brooding	det
55	brooding	brooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 contemplation	conj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 meditation	cc
57	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 brooding	conj
58	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	63 unknown	advmod
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 desire	det
60	grosser	gross	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	61 desire	amod
61	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 unknown	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 unknown	cop
63	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 brooding	advcl
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 born	cc
65	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 born	nsubj:pass
66	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 born	aux:pass
67	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	63 unknown	conj
68	to	to	ADP	_	70 parents	case
69	sinless	sinless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 parents	amod
70	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 born	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 recorded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	record	present · passive				the Shi's matrimony		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in matrimony=Destination
2	is	gerund				every respect with earth marriage	parallel property	tree rules
3	urge	present	the desire		marriage			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	seem	present	the desire					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	the desire not said here				violent property	tree rules
6	be		the desire not said here					tree rules
7	is	present	desire				with us	tree rules
8	is a	present		a contemplation and a brooding and meditation		the Coloured Land marriage	of beauty	tree rules
9	is	present	all grosser desire				unknown, wherein property	tree rules
10	bear	present · passive		children			to sinless parents	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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