Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

Conn the Hundred Fighter, Ard-Ri’ of Ireland, was in the lowest spirits that can be imagined, for his wife was dead.

Who acts: Conn, wife · What happens: be, imagine · To what, where: lowest spirits

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, wife), 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	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 spirits	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hundred	det
3	Hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Conn	nmod
4	Fighter	Fighter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hundred	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ard	punct
6	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Conn	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Ri	punct
8	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ard	nmod:unmarked
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Ard	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ireland	case
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ard	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Conn	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spirits	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 spirits	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirits	det
16	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 spirits	amod
17	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 imagined	nsubj:pass
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 imagined	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 imagined	aux:pass
21	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spirits	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 dead	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dead	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 imagined	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 spirits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Conn the Hundred Fighter and Ard Ri of Ireland		the lowest spirits		tree rules
2	imagine	can · passive		the lowest spirits			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	Ireland's wife			dead property	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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