Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13

It may be dissolution by fire, and that can note a destruction too final for the mind to contemplate; or it may be banishment from that sphere to a lower and worse one.

Who acts: retribution, that, mind · What happens: be, note, contemplate · To what, where: dissolution, destruction, banishment, lower one, sphere

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 (retribution, that, mind), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dissolution	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dissolution	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dissolution	cop
4	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolution	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 note	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 note	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 note	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 note	aux
11	note	note	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dissolution	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 destruction	det
13	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 note	obj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 final	advmod
15	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 note	ccomp
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 contemplate	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mind	det
18	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contemplate	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 contemplate	mark
20	contemplate	contemplate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 final	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 banishment	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 banishment	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 banishment	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 banishment	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 banishment	cop
26	banishment	banishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolution	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 sphere	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 sphere	det
29	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banishment	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	35 one	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 one	det
32	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 one	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 worse	cc
34	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 lower	conj
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banishment	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dissolution	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	may	retribution	dissolution or banishment			by fire	tree rules
2	note	can	that	a destruction				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent destruction=Topic
3	contemplate	to-infinitive	the mind					vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	may	retribution	banishment	a lower one	that sphere		tree rules

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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