Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

In the Shi’ the crime of Becuma would have been lightly considered, and would have received none or but a nominal punishment, but in the second world a horrid gravity attaches to such a lapse, and the retribution meted is implacable and grim.

Who acts: horrid gravity, retribution · What happens: ', consider, receive, attach, mete, be · To what, where: Shi, crime, none, second world, retribution, Becuma

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 (horrid gravity, retribution), 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	_	3 Shi	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Shi	det
3	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ’	obl
4	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crime	det
6	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 considered	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Becuma	case
8	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 crime	nmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 considered	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 considered	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 considered	aux:pass
12	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	13 considered	advmod
13	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ’	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 received	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 received	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 received	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 received	aux
18	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 ’	advcl
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 received	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 none	cc
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 punishment	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 punishment	det
23	nominal	nominal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 punishment	amod
24	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 none	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 attaches	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 attaches	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
29	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 world	amod
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 attaches	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 gravity	det
32	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gravity	amod
33	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 attaches	nsubj
34	attaches	attach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ’	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 lapse	case
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	38 lapse	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lapse	det
38	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 attaches	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 implacable	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 implacable	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 retribution	det
42	retribution	retribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 implacable	nsubj
43	meted	mete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 retribution	acl
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 implacable	cop
45	implacable	implacable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 attaches	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 grim	cc
47	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 implacable	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ’	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	'	past			the Shi		tree rules
2	consider	would · perfect · passive		the crime of Becuma		lightly property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3	receive	would · perfect		none			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme
4	attach	present	a horrid gravity		the second world	to such lapse	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to lapse=Co-Patient
5	mete	participle		the retribution not said here			tree rules
6	is	present	the retribution			implacable property	tree rules
7	be		the retribution not said here				tree rules
8	incriminate			Becuma			nom crime «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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