Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

Word was sent to the Shi’s of Ireland that this lady should not be permitted to enter any of them; from which it would seem that the ordinances of the Shi come from the higher world, and, it might follow, that the conduct of earth lies in the Shi’.

Who acts: it, ordinances, Shi, conduct · What happens: send, not permit, enter, seem, come, follow · To what, where: Word, Shi, lady, any, higher world, earth

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 (it, ordinances, Shi, conduct), 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	Word	Word	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Shi	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Shi	det
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Shi	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Ireland	case
9	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Shi	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 permitted	obj
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 permitted	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 permitted	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 permitted	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 permitted	aux:pass
16	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Shi	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 enter	mark
18	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 permitted	xcomp
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 enter	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 any	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seem	punct
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seem	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seem	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 seem	aux
27	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 come	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ordinances	det
30	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 come	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Shi	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Shi	det
33	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ordinances	nmod
34	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seem	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
37	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 world	amod
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 follow	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 follow	cc
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 and	punct
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 follow	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 follow	aux
44	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 lies	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 lies	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 conduct	det
48	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lies	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 earth	case
50	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 conduct	nmod
51	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 follow	parataxis
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 Shi	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Shi	det
54	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 lies	obl
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 lies	punct
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	send	past · passive		Word	the Shi of Ireland		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to shi=Destination
2	not permit	should · passive		this lady			tree rules
3	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive		any			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme any=Destination
4	seem	would	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	come	present	the ordinances of the Shi			the higher world	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location
6	follow	might	Shi				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lie	present	the conduct of earth			the Shi	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shi=Location
8	ordain			the Shi			nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	conduct			earth			nom conduct «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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