Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2

But joy and sorrow, or, in other words, good and evil, are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is life there is action, and action is but the expression of one or other of these qualities.

Who acts: life, action · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: other words, life, expression

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 (life, action), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 joy	cc
2	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sorrow	cc
4	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joy	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 absent	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 absent	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 or	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 absent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 evil	cc
14	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 words	punct
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 absent	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 absent	advmod
18	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 joy	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 degree	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 degree	nmod:poss
21	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 absent	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 any	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 absent	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 worlds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 worlds	det
26	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 any	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 is	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 is	case
29	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	31 is	advmod
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 is	expl
31	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 absent	parataxis
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 is	nsubj
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 is	expl
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 life	cop
35	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 expression	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 expression	cc
38	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 expression	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 expression	cop
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 expression	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 expression	det
42	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joy	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 one	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 expression	nmod
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 other	cc
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 one	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 qualities	case
48	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	49 qualities	det
49	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 one	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 joy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present			other words	in words's degree; from any; absent property	tree rules
2	be	present	life		there	wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		life			tree rules
4	is a	present	action	the expression		of one of this qualities	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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